Sometime Today, Trevor Warren assembled some asciibets to say: > Luckily no HBA or SCSI controller. Its IDE. dmesg screams io error. > And fdisk -l doesn't work but throws up io errors.
sorry trevor, should have given this solution first. put your hard disk into the freezer (T<0�C) for 24 hours. When you take it out it should work for at least 24 hours. That should give you enough time to copy the data off it. Philip PS: I'm not kidding. I've done this twice before. -- A man is not complete until he is married -- then he is finished. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
