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Offline mikhael

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on: December 27, 2002, 09:02:58 pm
The main drive in my fileserver decided to die today, in the middle of a write.

It took with it almost every creative idea I've ever had, every single piece of source code I've ever written, every bit of my email, resumes, documentation, graphical work and all my Truespace models, scenes and textures AND all the renders thereof.

Oh yeah: and the backups? Both this months and last months are corrupt. Alternating media is NOT A1 SUPAR.
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Offline Ulundel

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Reply #1 on: December 27, 2002, 09:05:19 pm
Outch dude.

I had something like this a couple of months ago. Not good. Not good at all.
 

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Reply #2 on: December 27, 2002, 09:13:08 pm
Maybe you can recover the files, somehow?
 

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Reply #3 on: December 27, 2002, 09:25:45 pm
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Originally posted by mikhael
The main drive in my fileserver decided to die today, in the middle of a write.

It took with it almost every creative idea I've ever had, every single piece of source code I've ever written, every bit of my email, resumes, documentation, graphical work and all my Truespace models, scenes and textures AND all the renders thereof.

Oh yeah: and the backups? Both this months and last months are corrupt. Alternating media is NOT A1 SUPAR.


Ouch. I know how you feel, having lost a lot of my own stuff a while back when my HD died. I managed to recover a good portion of it, though.

The scary thing is, a few minutes ago while I was typing this reply, my computer crashed the exact same way it did at the time when I lost my HD, and when I rebooted it it didn't find one of my discs. I almost freaked out, it would be, like, the worst coincidence ever.

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Reply #4 on: December 27, 2002, 09:33:14 pm
Nah. The worst coincidence ever would have to be way worse than that. Like, while someone is watching Armageddon and saying "That's never gonna happen!" a meteor hits the Earth.

I'd like to see that happen.
 

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Reply #5 on: December 27, 2002, 11:23:18 pm
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Maybe you can recover the files, somehow?


I've tried everything. Its an old SCSI drive. I suspect the problem is in the drive electronics and not the platters or heads. I can't get the SCSI controller to do more than ID the drive (and it only does that interittently). Even when the machine does manage to ID the drive, accesses to the drive fail completely, usually locking up the SCSI subsystem.

My best idea right now is to try to find someone selling the same model of drive and use the logic board off the back of it to control the hardware from this one. I've done that before on IDE drives successfully.

The most upsetting thing is the loss of the story/game ideas and all the Truespace work. The work wasn't all that hot, but it represents a huge investment of my life--and it had a lot of sentimental value. The programming stuff is of only slightly lesser importance: I had just gotten the beginnings of a framework for a sprite/tile based RPG engine put together using libSDL and C++. :(

Luckily,  the Lightwave stuff is on another drive, on another computer. I've setup a scheduled task to compress and transfer the stuff to both local backups (Zip) and to a friends file server regularly.
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Reply #6 on: December 28, 2002, 01:27:32 am
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Nah. The worst coincidence ever would have to be way worse than that. Like, while someone is watching Armageddon and saying "That's never gonna happen!" a meteor hits the Earth.

I'd like to see that happen.
Somehow, I don't think you would.
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Reply #7 on: December 28, 2002, 02:18:52 am
Gargoyles, Season 1.  Buy it, or DIE! :)

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Reply #8 on: December 28, 2002, 12:23:29 pm
this happened to a friend of mine... in the end he did manage to recover everything, but he didn't do it himself.

He took the drive to Compaq (i think) and for a price, they did all these tests, and recovered in the end MOST of the drive.

that may be an option, calling Compaq and asking them what they can do.  they may sell sucky computers/computer components, but they may just be able to help
 

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Reply #9 on: December 28, 2002, 12:37:14 pm
They only do that for their own machines though, right? (i.e. manufactured by Compaq)

I better do a backup as well sometime soon, just in case...
 

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Reply #10 on: December 28, 2002, 12:44:46 pm
If you really really really want your stuff back (and you're prepared to pay dearly for it), here is the company for it:
http://www.ibas.com
they are like the gods of data recovery.
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Reply #11 on: December 28, 2002, 02:08:34 pm
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http://www.descentbb.net/ubb/Forum8/HTML/004544.html

Maybe you can try what he did.


I read through that. Unfortunately, none of it helps me. The problem here isn't the MEDIA, its the drive electronics. The disc spins up and the heads track, so the problem isn't mechanica. There was no head crash, so I'm pretty sure the platters are okay.

That leaves, really, the drive electronics--which would explain why the sCSI card can see the drive ID sometimes, but not always, and why attempts to stat the drive from the SCSI BIOS tools block. I'm going to try getting my hands on a logic board for this drive and see if I can get the data off that way.
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Reply #12 on: December 28, 2002, 02:10:57 pm
thats why 25 in a box CD's are good for :D just backed up evry single bit of data i have :D
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Reply #13 on: December 28, 2002, 02:16:20 pm
Backups are good. I wish I had important data just so that I could make a backup of it.
 

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Reply #14 on: December 28, 2002, 02:31:44 pm
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thats why 25 in a box CD's are good for :D just backed up evry single bit of data i have :D


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Oh yeah: and the backups? Both this months and last months are corrupt.
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Reply #15 on: December 28, 2002, 03:00:56 pm
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Backups are good. I wish I had important data just so that I could make a backup of it.


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Offline diamondgeezer

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Reply #16 on: December 28, 2002, 03:26:45 pm
I've never had a hard disk die on me. I feel left out :(
 

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Reply #17 on: December 28, 2002, 03:30:53 pm
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I've never had a hard disk die on me. I feel left out :(


Same here, but i don't quite consider it a bad thing... ;)
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Reply #18 on: December 28, 2002, 04:22:45 pm
once it happened to me, only once (thankfully) and all i lost was about 3000 MP3s...


my friend lost about 7000 MP3s, dozens of programs, and all his work files... heh

good thing Compaq was able to recover it

Oh, and the drive wasn't a compaq drive either... he hates compaq, it was a western digital drive he'd bought and installed in the computer he built, but his friend at Compaq did it for him
 

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Reply #19 on: December 28, 2002, 04:24:12 pm
Well then it would be that he had connections, not that compaq recovers anyones drives then, wouldn't it?
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