Hope you washed your hands after touching it! Dustin Puryear wrote:
> Yes, they were submerged. We are overnight shipping the drive to > OnTrack tomorrow. > > --- > Puryear Information Technology, LLC > Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 > http://www.puryear-it.com > > Author of "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > Download your free copy: > http://www.puryear-it.com/bestpractices.htm > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* John Hebert <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 21, 2005 7:07 PM > *Subject:* Re: [brlug-general] Hard disk recovery > > Good idea. This would work in situations where the drive > electronics are hosed. However, I _think_ the drive was submerged; > Dustin still has yet to confirm that fact. IDE hard drives are not > actually water-tight. They need air in order to float the RW heads > just above the disk surface. > > John > > On 9/21/05, *jr_G-man* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > Well, I don't think you have to go as far as removing the > platters. I > had success one time by getting an identical drive and > swapping the > logic boards between the two. This allowed me enough time to > bring the > drive up and copy the data off. At that point, you have your > data and > the two drives involved can be considered effectively > trashed. (You can > still use them in a 'throwaway' system, I guess.) > > As some have suggested already, I have also had a good degree > of success > with just using a 'live CD', like Knoppix, Mepis, or the Windows > Emergency Recovery Disk. Although, admittedly, if the drive > has already > started to give you errors, the situation may already be too > dire for > this method. > > > >Message: 9 > >Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:44:58 -0500 > >From: "Dustin Puryear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > >Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Hard disk recovery > >To: <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > > reply-type=original > > > >Oh my God, *me* put the platters into another drive? Hell no! > If nothing > >else how do you protect the platters from dust? Anyway, I'm > not experienced > >in this. We already have a quote coming in from OnTrack. I > was just trying > >to see if anyone had any other leads. > > > >Leave it to a tech list to suggest that I take out my > screwdriver and torch. > >:-) > > > >--- > >Puryear Information Technology, LLC > >Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 > >http://www.puryear-it.com > > > >Author of "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > >Download your free copy: > > http://www.puryear-it.com/bestpractices.htm > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
