Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-29 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 01:41:58PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:11:07PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > If I understood this right, you have two disks with data and they were > > previously configured as RAID1 volume. > > What make\model RAID-controller do

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:11:07PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: If I understood this right, you have two disks with data and they were previously configured as RAID1 volume. What make\model RAID-controller do you use? Because "cages" by themselves offer only SATA\SAS ports for disks to

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-24 Thread David Christensen
On 9/24/19 7:00 AM, David wrote: On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 07:50, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:07:15AM -, Debian Buster wrote: 2. create the parttion exactly as it was. system. I recognise that was only that easy to do because I knew that the original partition

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-24 Thread David
On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 07:50, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:07:15AM -, Debian Buster wrote: > > 2. create the parttion exactly as it was. > system. I recognise that was only that easy to do because I knew that > the original partition arrangement was so simple. If it had

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:07:15AM -, Debian Buster wrote: > > Posible Options: > 1. if you use lilo, look for a copy of parttions table. > 2. create the parttion exactly as it was. I'm running GRUB not lilo -- used lilo back in the 90's but switched to grub whenever Debian started

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-23 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 23.09.2019 3:40, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hello > > While setting up a newly purchased RAID-capable hard disk cage I've > damaged the contents of 2 hard disks and want to know if it is possible > to recover. > > The cage has 5 disk slots each occupied by 3TB hard disks. 4 of the > disks came

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-22 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 23/09/2019 08:37, Debian Buster wrote: On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 23:40:51 +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote: Hello While setting up a newly purchased RAID-capable hard disk cage I've damaged the contents of 2 hard disks and want to know if it is possible to recover. The cage has 5 disk slots each

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-22 Thread Debian Buster
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 23:40:51 +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hello > > While setting up a newly purchased RAID-capable hard disk cage I've > damaged the contents of 2 hard disks and want to know if it is possible > to recover. > > The cage has 5 disk slots each occupied by 3TB hard disks. 4 of

Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-22 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello While setting up a newly purchased RAID-capable hard disk cage I've damaged the contents of 2 hard disks and want to know if it is possible to recover. The cage has 5 disk slots each occupied by 3TB hard disks. 4 of the disks came from an older cage by the same maker (TerraMaster, in

Rescuing ancient laptops into emulation.

2011-09-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
The ancient laptop in question has about 24M main memory, a 2G hard drive, a plug-in floppy drive, a CD drive, and a 10Mhz coaxial ethernet PCMCIA card. (Remember those?) The hard drive will probably fail one of these years. I'm surprised it hasn't already. It runs an ancient Windows system,

Re: Rescuing ancient laptops into emulation.

2011-09-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:31:17 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: The ancient laptop in question has about 24M main memory, a 2G hard drive, a plug-in floppy drive, a CD drive, and a 10Mhz coaxial ethernet PCMCIA card. (Remember those?) The hard drive will probably fail one of these years. I'm

Re: Rescuing ancient laptops into emulation.

2011-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Hendrik Boom wrote: I can probably find a small enough Linux Live CD system to boot on it and use the sshfs or NFS o copy the entire hard drive over the ethernet connection. But recommendations would be very welcome. Personally since I am a hardware type of guy I would pull the hard disk

Re: Rescuing ancient laptops into emulation.

2011-09-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:58:38 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I would look at Virtual Box. It is very easy to get going using it. http://www.virtualbox.org/ Bob, Looking at the spec and age of the machine in question, one suspects that these are old DOS games. If that's the case, would not

Re: Rescuing ancient laptops into emulation.

2011-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Walter, Walter Hurry wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: I would look at Virtual Box. It is very easy to get going using it. http://www.virtualbox.org/ Bob, Looking at the spec and age of the machine in question, one suspects that these are old DOS games. If that's the case, would not

Re: Rescuing ancient laptops into emulation.

2011-09-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:01:19 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Hi Walter, Walter Hurry wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: I would look at Virtual Box. It is very easy to get going using it. http://www.virtualbox.org/ Bob, Looking at the spec and age of the machine in question, one suspects that

Re: Rescuing ancient laptops into emulation.

2011-09-05 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/09/11 02:31, Hendrik Boom wrote: The ancient laptop in question has about 24M main memory, a 2G hard drive, a plug-in floppy drive, a CD drive, and a 10Mhz coaxial ethernet PCMCIA card. (Remember those?) The hard drive will probably fail one of these years. I'm surprised it hasn't

rescuing a server with adaptec SCSI wihtout reinstalling?

2005-12-05 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello somehow the kernel i kept from the installation procedure was thrown out by aptitude last time i didn't looked closely... and now i have a machine that stops at a busybox claiming that something doesn't exist: after: /scripts/local-top/evms: 32: /sbin/evms_activate: not found

solution: rescuing /home on a failed attempt to ugprade to sarge (and new question)

2004-09-09 Thread matthew bradley
Hi all, Thanks for the advice (re: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/09/msg00988.html ) What I ended up doing was taking a Gentoo LiveCD I had laying around, booting off of that, setting hda3 to a mount point under the gentoo system, configuring sshd (with some help from others) to

Re: solution: rescuing /home on a failed attempt to ugprade to sarge (and new question)

2004-09-09 Thread John Summerfield
matthew bradley wrote: What I ended up doing was taking a Gentoo LiveCD I had laying around, booting off of that, setting hda3 to a mount point under the gentoo system, configuring sshd (with some help from others) to allow root login, and then tarring up home, ftping it to a windows box with

Rescuing an old RISC6000

2003-02-06 Thread vdemart
At office I'm trying to rescue an old IBM risc 6000 - 7012/320 workstation doomed to elimination. Is there anyone in this list able to tell me if I can install debian ppc on it and - booting from diskette - what architecture chrp, prep, what else? Thanks Vittorio

RE: Rescuing an old RISC6000

2003-02-06 Thread Narins, Josh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes, Thursday, February 06, 2003 3:00 AM At office I'm trying to rescue an old IBM risc 6000 - 7012/320 workstation doomed to elimination. Is there anyone in this list able to tell me if I can install debian ppc on it and - booting from diskette - what

Re: help rescuing a crashed hard drive

1998-08-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 12:11:59PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, JonesMB wrote: Are there any utilities that I can use to salvage data from a drive that the BIOS reports as dead? This morning I woke up to a ticking sound from my hard drive. It is a 5.7GB

help rescuing a crashed hard drive

1998-08-03 Thread JonesMB
Are there any utilities that I can use to salvage data from a drive that the BIOS reports as dead? This morning I woke up to a ticking sound from my hard drive. It is a 5.7GB Seagate drive I upgraded to about 6 weeks ago. I had an xconsole up and messages in there indicate that the messages

Re: help rescuing a crashed hard drive

1998-08-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, JonesMB wrote: Are there any utilities that I can use to salvage data from a drive that the BIOS reports as dead? This morning I woke up to a ticking sound from my hard drive. It is a 5.7GB Seagate drive I upgraded to about 6 weeks ago. When you hear strange sounds

rescuing

1997-05-03 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hi, I've run into a problem using a rescue disk that I haven't seen before. The boot disk finds all the devices (scsi, etc...) and then asks for the root disk. The ramdisk is found ok. Then, I get a screen telling me that the computer has relatively little memory and that I should activate swap.

Re: rescuing

1997-05-03 Thread Rick Jones
Could it be that the rescue kernel was compiled with the 16MB restriction? On Sat, 3 May 1997, Jesse Goldman wrote: Hi, I've run into a problem using a rescue disk that I haven't seen before. The boot disk finds all the devices (scsi, etc...) and then asks for the root disk. The ramdisk