----- Original Message ----- From: "Clay Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 8:01 PM Subject: Re: KX-T: Replacement hard drives for KX-TV100 voice mail system
> You need software that can clone or copy a drive in a sector-by-sector mode. > I used Norton's DiskEdit in the maintenance mode (/M), selected the KX-TVS's > drive and copied to the other drive in sector mode. It took about an hour > to copy the drive. You can't use normal drive clone software (like > Norton's Ghost) because there isn't any normal file structure on the KX-TVS > drive. There _is_ a file structure, but it's just not normal to Linux or DOS or Windows or some other general purpose operating system. > When the drive crashes we would only need to reverse the procedure, copy > from the backup drive to another 2.5 inch drive. I documented the > topology of the original drive (heads, sectors, tracks, total sectors) so I > could replace it with a similar drive. Any drive should work as long as it > is larger, but it would be a good idea to pick up a spare drive and give it > a dry-run. > > I maintain two systems with this model of voicemail. Both have been > running for almost eight years on the original hard drives. They seem to > have a good MTBF, but I'm expecting a call any day.... ;-) Have you done a live test of this system? That is, actually restored from a backup to a new disk and tried running it? Since physical sector size is different on different generations of drives I'm wondering how this can work if the sector size of either the backup drive or the new drive isn't the same as the original. _________________________________________________________________ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
