if thats the case, you may try rescuept, diskdruid can recreate the partitions and write the MBR, I've done this with ide drives sucessfully,but never tried scsi. druid has the potential of finding partition start blocks, but I've found rescuept to be more accurate. if the drive is literally failed there is a trick involving freezing the drive and quickly pulling data from it but it never personally worked for me. on the other hand you may look into that method elsewhere and see how others have made out. if the drive has totally failed it's not as though you have much to lose. Tom


Tom's AutoQuote: "You have moved your Mouse, Windows will now Reboot"



--- "Cliff Friedel" <cfriedel@alltel.net> wrote:
Matt,

Will it still recognize the device in linux (ie: does it still show up as
/dev/sd?)? If so, you may want to boot with another drive and see if it is
the partition table that got hosed.  Had this happen to me once.  Rewrote
the partition table exactly the way it was before and boom! The data was
back.  I then copied it to another drive and refdisked and reformatted the
drive.  If it is just file problems, try using the tools for the type of
file system you used (ie: fsck and ext2fs for ext2(3) filesystems, others
for others)

If it is a real hardware problem, there are a couple of places out there
that will disassemble the drive and get the info off (although it is quite
expensive).  Ontrack is one.  Do a google search and I am sure you will find
more.

Hope this helps.

Cliff Friedel

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-erie-bounces+cfriedel=alltel.net@wplug.org
[mailto:wplug-erie-bounces+cfriedel=alltel.net@wplug.org] On Behalf Of
Matthew T. Engel
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:49 AM
To: wplug-erie@wplug.org
Subject: [wplug-erie] recover data from failed scsi drive?

Does anyone know how I might go about recovering data from a failed scsi
drive?  Or at least point me in a direction of a good resource?

thanks in advance...

Matt Engel

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