[TriLUG] Hard drive recovery

[James Brigman]

Owen: 

How important is the data on the drive? Is it super-important,
irreplaceable stuff? (like family or baby pics) 

If it is, can you post the WD model number of the drive to the list and
let us look for one that runs, and try swapping the electronics? 

I have seen some models of drive where the servo control circuits burn
out and won't drive the heads around. Some brands "click" like you are
talking about. 

If this data is really important to you, we should, at least, try a
board swap before declaring "fin".

JKB

On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 15:56 -0400, Owen Berry wrote:
> > >The latest on this is that I managed to boot Knoppix running the bad drive
> > >on a PCI IDE controller. The BIOS detects the drive, and so does Knoppix,
> > >but complains bitterly about it.
> > >
> > >Here are some messages from dmesg:
> > >hde: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63
> > >
> > hde: cache flushes not supported
> > 
> > >hde:hde: recal_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > >hde: recal_intr: error=0x02 { TrackZeroNotFound }
> > >ide: failed opcode was: unknown