Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> writes: > > Hm. One thing you can try that has worked for me is to freeze the > > drive. > > stick it in a ziplock and put it in the freezer for a few hours. then > > plug it in and try to get the data you need immediately. > > I've heard of that trick before - although - I think it mostly works if the > circuitry is the failing component. And it may be, who knows.
My understanding was that if the bearings were failing in some way, freezing it subtly changes things so that it works for a while. But yeah, no matter how it worked, it did save my ass in production, once. http://xenophilia.xen.prgmr.com/ (never ever give a customer non-redundant disk, even if you tell them it's not redundant.) _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
