[Fwd: Re: Looking for Quantum HD for desparate data recovery]

[Shachar Tal]

Hi Dov,

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Yes, it was bound to happen. My web-server computer at the Weizmann 
Institute short-circuited and once the smoke cleared out, there was
the 10G harddisk with the only copy of lots of data that I am dying
to restore...

I tried to connect the HD to another computer but it doesn't even 
spin up. As a desparate last act I have decided to try to find an 
identical drive and swap the control boards. (It has been done but 
I have no idea if it will succeed).
 

AFAIK, this will not work. While it *did* work with older disks, newer 
disks have extra disk space preallocated for remapping bad sectors, 
moving data around etc., and the mapping table is stored on one of the 
chips on the circuit board. This means that when swapping the board you 
will lose the mapping of logical sectors into physical sectors. 
Reordering ~2^24 sectors can take some time.

So, does anyone have any idea of where I can find the following HD?

  Quantum Fireball CX, 3.5 series
  10.2AT P/N CX10A011 Rev 02-B (Found on sticker above cable socket)
If anyone has this disk in any of their old boxes I would be more 
than happy to replace it with a 80G brand new disk of their choice.

Thanks in advance,
Dov
 

Shachar.





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