On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:38:22 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Using SCSI hardware isnt' brain surgery. I'm
> sure that there are IDE tape
> drives out there, but i've never used them, and
> can't vouch for their
> performance or reliability.
I didn't mean that- I'm sure I can figure out pluggin a card into the PCI slot
and adding drives. It's more I don't know what controllers are good, etc.
> > OK, I'll look into that. Do you know of any
> good retailers (pref. online)?
>
> Not really. I usually go with whoever sells
> what i'm looking for the
> least amount of money. Ecrix tape drives are
> expensive, i'm not going to
> mince words, and they're definitely outside of
> your budget range.
I've noticed the Seagates are about $20 cheaper than anything else (Sonys are
the next step up) on Pricewatch. Are they any good?
> > And back to the original question. Is there
> any chance of recovering the
> > partition table? If I don't have the data to
> back up, there's not too much
> > sense having something to back it up to.
>
> Like i already said, if you're certain of the
> partition sizes &
> boundaries, you could always recreate them from
> scratch, and your data
> will be safe. If linux fdisk can't see
> partitions, then i dont know what
> there is to recover.
Should I trust the Bootit NG partition table readout? I find it kind of odd
that Bootit has a partition table for the drive, as does WindeXP, but Linux
doesn't.
Bob Raymond
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