Something you might want to try is replacing the controller board on the disk. On two occassions, I had friends with disk that died, but we were able to get the data completely off the disk by replacing the controller board on the disk itself. This does require that you get exactly the same board as is on the drive, and this only works if the failure was due to the disk controller, and not internal hardware. From a Defcon presentation, this is the case in I recall 85% of disk failures. I found the exact same disk as my friends disk on ebay for $20, and just replaced the board. May or may not work, but it is worth a shot, and will either work or not. Be carefull when disconnecting the boards, to make sure you don't damage the cables that connect to the internal hardware. Good Luck. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@kuentos.guam.net mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 8,839,360.988 | EINSTEIN 3,255,438.231 | ROSETTA 1,455,251.513 _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
