The second method I've seen work is to take a molex connector cable to serial, it attaches to the four little pins on the back of the drive and allows firmware access through a terminal program like hyper terminal or minicom. I've seen drives corrupt there firmware and this is really the only way to get into the settings and play with it, you can sometimes unlock a drive and get it spinning up, however copy the data off ASAP and swap the drive, it's at it's lifes end.
Other than the infamous Seagate 7200.11 firmware problem where instructions were eventually posted for the unwashed masses http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/, how would one know what commands to send and what data to provide with such a serial connection? It's not like the HD manufacturers' support folks will give you the info when you call them up and break into tears.
Apart from all the garage hacks I just talked about there is alway the manufactures tools, they usually will allow you to download a disk image full of apps that can talk to the drive and try to recover it.
Seagate's SeaTools won't do that. Western Digital's DataLifeguard won't do that. Hitachi's DFT won't do that. I'd love to find some software from those guys that will allow attempts at data recovery but all I see these days is that they are touting their own data recovery services. Where did you find these tools?
That's about what the US based recovery houses charge. Who's going to send their HD to Hungary (unless they live near there) when they can have the work done at home (again, assuming that "at home" is US)?
I know that/. is international but by quoting your prices in USD instead of Euros I get the impression that you're addressing the US audience with this.
But what if that "Crash" guy kills and maims a family in his efforts to maintain his nom de guerre? While $1 million sounds like a lot at first, with several horribly destroyed lives to care for, it may turn out to be just a drop in the bucket.
It's possible to convert to the new unified filesystem without using anaconda, as described here and in the original reference here.
I can say from personal experience that the method described worked, without evidence of any problem, when I upgraded via yum from F16 to F17 on a hard drive dedicated to Fedora.
Well for those young'uns who weren't there when just about everyone knew what it meant, there was this modem thing where when you typed this special 3-character escape sequence, +++
I was not at all interested in the IPMI features (we don't use them) but we built a Supermicro based system because I couldn't find anything ready-made from Dell, HP, or IBM that offered dual Xeon, several PCIe slots for RAID cards, big RAM, and a case with 36 hot swap drive bays in a rackmount configuration (I don't think there was any in a "tower" config either though).
Did I miss something that is available for this? I'm asking because we're considering another such system using Sandy Bridge CPUs.
In my reading of AC#1's reply, the single word "FAIL", I interpretated that reply to mean that the premise that no IP address need be assigned to the receiver was incorrect. I didn't note the possibility that "FAIL" was meant to apply to the "reduce the potential for malicious access" part instead.
Furthermore, AC#1's parent post didn't contrast this method with the clearly superior broadcast method that had at that time not yet been mentioned (the first mention of that was more than 3 hours later). His post merely stated:
The main advantage is that you wouldn't need to actually assign an IP address to your computer in order to receive data - which should reduce the potential for malicious access.
which is true, is it not?
Had AC#1 thought to include a few additional words to flesh out his argument, perhaps a poor fool like me would have not misinterpreted the overly succinct gem that is his reply, and you and I could have saved our typing for something useful. And then, profit!
The sender generally has an IP address. The receiver may not have one yet (generally acquires one after selecting an access point to connect to). If the receiver never connects and just browses the list of available access points, then, voila!
Yeah, there's one in every crowd. This was a report about one teacher yelling at one student. The/. article however is about a government action.
SPENCER, NC â" A North Carolina high school teacher was captured on video shouting at a student who questioned President Obama and suggesting he could be arrested for criticizing a sitting president.
It would be funny if it turned out that Wolfram Alpha was collecting all of the passwords people are typing and using them to populate the tables of their own password cracker. Nah.
Otherwise, why bother giving them sick days when they're sick?
Because you hope that it will keep them from coming in and making everybody else sick also.
We get 5 "sick days" where I work and I've asked folks who were absolutely obviously miserably sick why they didn't stay home and heard the reply "used up my sick days" so often that I stopped counting.
I know this is a very late reply but I'm surprised - it looks like MPC is binary only yet the download is from sourceforge.net -- I thought that sourceforge, as its name implies, hosted only free or open source stuff.
Slashdot Mirror
Other than the infamous Seagate 7200.11 firmware problem where instructions were eventually posted for the unwashed masses http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/, how would one know what commands to send and what data to provide with such a serial connection? It's not like the HD manufacturers' support folks will give you the info when you call them up and break into tears.
Seagate's SeaTools won't do that. Western Digital's DataLifeguard won't do that. Hitachi's DFT won't do that. I'd love to find some software from those guys that will allow attempts at data recovery but all I see these days is that they are touting their own data recovery services. Where did you find these tools?
OK, OK, so I didn't preview long enough.
Said like a true glass is half empty sort of person.
Cheer up mate, Apple made millions in repair fees and sales of new iPods. That's you're happy ending right there.
That's about what the US based recovery houses charge. Who's going to send their HD to Hungary (unless they live near there) when they can have the work done at home (again, assuming that "at home" is US)?
/. is international but by quoting your prices in USD instead of Euros I get the impression that you're addressing the US audience with this.
I know that
They could use a socket, then, so the chip could be swapped without all the drama. What, 5-cents additional cost?
Apparently a "computer programmer" in Riga earns on average around $790 per month:
http://www.worldsalaries.org/latvia.shtml
But what if that "Crash" guy kills and maims a family in his efforts to maintain his nom de guerre? While $1 million sounds like a lot at first, with several horribly destroyed lives to care for, it may turn out to be just a drop in the bucket.
There ya go!
It's possible to convert to the new unified filesystem without using anaconda, as described here and in the original reference here.
I can say from personal experience that the method described worked, without evidence of any problem, when I upgraded via yum from F16 to F17 on a hard drive dedicated to Fedora.
I have just two words for you: The Sting
:-)
Well, OK, you did say in most cases
Birth certificates or it didn't happen!
You and Ahmadinejad ought to team up because Al Queda has been reported in a The Onion-like article as scoffing at this type of bullshit:
Al Qaeda Calls On Mahmoud Ahmadinejad To End 'Ridiculous' 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
Well for those young'uns who weren't there when just about everyone knew what it meant, there was this modem thing where when you typed this special 3-character escape sequence, +++
NO CARRIER
Your post intrigued me so I Googled the event and found that the problem was that a bad driver was corrupting some nonvolatile memory on the e1000:
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Update-on-the-Intel-e1000e-Linux-Bug
I think therefore that it didn't exactly break the card but disabled it until the NVM could be rewritten properly.
It looks like Fedora 17 is available for this processor series also:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/17/ppc/
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/17/ppc64/
I was not at all interested in the IPMI features (we don't use them) but we built a Supermicro based system because I couldn't find anything ready-made from Dell, HP, or IBM that offered dual Xeon, several PCIe slots for RAID cards, big RAM, and a case with 36 hot swap drive bays in a rackmount configuration (I don't think there was any in a "tower" config either though).
Did I miss something that is available for this? I'm asking because we're considering another such system using Sandy Bridge CPUs.
Furthermore, AC#1's parent post didn't contrast this method with the clearly superior broadcast method that had at that time not yet been mentioned (the first mention of that was more than 3 hours later). His post merely stated:
which is true, is it not?
Had AC#1 thought to include a few additional words to flesh out his argument, perhaps a poor fool like me would have not misinterpreted the overly succinct gem that is his reply, and you and I could have saved our typing for something useful. And then, profit!
No fail. Very clever.
The sender generally has an IP address. The receiver may not have one yet (generally acquires one after selecting an access point to connect to). If the receiver never connects and just browses the list of available access points, then, voila!
The real problem with this survey is that they limited it to America.
Obama is nothing and Romney is huge in Amercia.
http://gawker.com/5914880/chinese-owner-of-amerciacom-says-romney-typo-is-helping-him-fund-his-sons-college-education
The parent comment is curiously modded "off-topic".
This "mantra" is reportedly stamped at the bottom of the holy manuscript / World Cup Memo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra
It would be funny if it turned out that Wolfram Alpha was collecting all of the passwords people are typing and using them to populate the tables of their own password cracker. Nah.
Because you hope that it will keep them from coming in and making everybody else sick also.
We get 5 "sick days" where I work and I've asked folks who were absolutely obviously miserably sick why they didn't stay home and heard the reply "used up my sick days" so often that I stopped counting.
I know this is a very late reply but I'm surprised - it looks like MPC is binary only yet the download is from sourceforge.net -- I thought that sourceforge, as its name implies, hosted only free or open source stuff.
Did anybody happen to notice that the only link in this /. article is to a site whose focus is on denying the existence of global warming?
An odd place to find "news" I think.