[ale] (SCSI) HDD recovery

Ken Cochran kwc at TheWorld.com
Sat May 29 16:36:21 EDT 2010


Any recommendation(s) for a good hdd recovery company?

Looks like a power blink took out one of my HDDs, an IBM DPSS
309170 SCSI 9gb - I think it might be spinning up but no initial
"startup seek" and it doesn't come ready when the SCSI HBA
(Adaptec 29160 I think) probes it on POST.  OS is FreeBSD and
filesystems are UFS (I don't remember whether UFS1 or USF2).

Long ago (1993-ish?) I used OnTrack (in Minnesota I think) &
they did an outstanding job.  Should I use them or is there
someone closer/better, e.g. in the Atlanta area?

Thanks, -kc


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