16 Aug
2005
16 Aug
'05
9:06 a.m.
I have a disk
drive [with problems].
I'm considering taking it apart and lubing the bearing.
I've done it
before, but I find it's not usually worth it, unless you
can't access data on the drive, and you really need that data. I'd
say if that drive is still working, find an identical drive and dd
the data over. > (All the bits from it are safe; live mirroring is
great for that.)
but rather for the doing of it. As I wrote, it's
> more to gain experience on a throwaway device than
to actually
> recover the drive.
So that when (if) I really need to, I'll have some idea what I'm doing.
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