On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:45:44 +0100 "Aley Keprt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You shouldn't rely on "disk error = all data lost". > I had a disk error, and I lost only one sector in one logical drive. > It depends on what kind of disk error you encounter.
Disk error != disk crash. > As I wrote, if whole disk goes away at once, it can be repaired without data > loss, since it's only in electronics. Please, Aley! How many enterprise disk systems have you encountered? How many hard drives have you handled from SOL to EOL? A disk crash does not always depend on electronics. You may have a failure in one arm which tears the entire disk apart, oil spills from the spindle, failure of the spindle and even failure of the file system (at least two times this has happened with NT). And even if you send it away for a data extraction - do you have any idea what this costs? -Frode
