Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

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Subject: Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations
From: Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:20:19 -0500
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KS wrote:

I connected the old hard disk via firewire to the powerbook and compiled
ddrescue to run on the G4 (new HDD and 10.4.11). It is just giving I/O
error in the syslog. I can't even be mounted. ddrescue has read 3MB in
the last half an hour and rescue zero bytes :(

Any other suggestions?
/KS


You could try replacing the controller board with one from an identical drive.

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