On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 12:20, d l wrote: > If the disc has really failed(partially), it might be > better to use a devel-board/devel-box instead of your > production machine when trying to retrive the data back. > > Many devel boards have IDE port built in, you can look at > the disc data sector by sector with it. And when the disc > fails, you just have to restart the devel board (take > ~10-30 secs). much better then having to wait for linux to > reboot over and over. That is fine if you have one available. An old system (S.A. PII) works fine for this work. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
