Re: NetBSD-friendly HDD recovery?

2020-11-25 Thread Brett Lymn
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 08:21:53AM +0100, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > Are you thinking of something that acts like dd on the whole disk but using > special data-recovery methods? > Yes. > That would require a medium having equal or greater data capacity. > Well, yes it would though compressing

Re: NetBSD-friendly HDD recovery?

2020-11-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:54:41AM -0600, David Young wrote: > > I want to avoid paying a steep price to a service that scans the > > medium and, finding no FAT/NTFS/HFS+/APFS volume on it, declares it > > unrecoverable when, in actual fact, every bit is intact. Is there a > > service that I c

Re: NetBSD-friendly HDD recovery?

2020-11-23 Thread Ted Spradley
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 11:54:41 -0600 David Young wrote: > I have some old Seagate-brand spinning rust with a NetBSD system on > it. The disk does not spin up, but I am pretty sure that the content is > intact, and I would like to have it for a reasonable price. Is there a > service that's known t

Re: NetBSD-friendly HDD recovery?

2020-11-23 Thread Brett Lymn
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:54:41AM -0600, David Young wrote: > > I want to avoid paying a steep price to a service that scans the > medium and, finding no FAT/NTFS/HFS+/APFS volume on it, declares it > unrecoverable when, in actual fact, every bit is intact. Is there a > service that I can trust

NetBSD-friendly HDD recovery?

2020-11-23 Thread David Young
I have some old Seagate-brand spinning rust with a NetBSD system on it. The disk does not spin up, but I am pretty sure that the content is intact, and I would like to have it for a reasonable price. Is there a service that's known to be NetBSD friendly? Last time I checked, recovery cost about