From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rudy Zijlstra Subject: Re: recovering from "rm -rf" Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 09:16:37 +0200 Message-ID: <42F5B555.5090703@edsons.demon.nl> References: <42F3A08A.30102@planet.nl> <42F3A16D.6090306@namesys.com> <42F3C73B.9040808@slaphack.com> <42F3D760.7090008@slaphack.com> <42F3DDA2.6070204@bdi.com> <42F3F028.2080207@slaphack.com> <255f08c2332b4fce337305e0b3f35db1@bdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <255f08c2332b4fce337305e0b3f35db1@bdi.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: "Aaron D. Ball" Cc: David Masover , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, PFC Aaron D. Ball wrote: > On 05 Aug 2005, at 19:03, David Masover wrote: > > [swapping boards on disks] > >> Which ones? > > > I believe it was whatever Maxtor IDE disks are inside their 5000DV > enclosure, and probably also Western Digital 1200JBs, but I'm not > entirely sure. It's been a few months. > >> My drive is a Western Digital, and they strongly advise against this >> procedure, becaues different drives (even of the same model number) may >> have different firmware versions, and this may make things worse. > > > Well, I'm not sure there's a "worse" in this case. If you need or can > afford to do the strictly right thing (pay several thousand dollars to > a data recovery company), by all means do so. But if you can't afford > that, buying a new drive and swapping electronics may work and is > certainly much cheaper. > > I've done it with Western Digital disks. They were same type and manufactured on consequetive days (1 day apart). Rudy