8 Feb
2018
8 Feb
'18
4:03 p.m.
> On 02/08/2018 12:28 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>
> Little concrete analysis has actually been done on these drives that has been
released outside the
> drive recovery shops.
Al, thanks for the thoughtful response- I was genuinely unaware heads could simply fail
outside of the obvious catastrophic modes. (I.E. head crashes)
I don?t have a lot of background here- what goes wrong with them?
I do wish that the cumulative knowledge developed by these data recovery outfits was just
a smidge more public- and I know there are some outfits who claim to ?refurbish? old HDAs,
although I have no idea what they actually do.
I?d be very curious if you or any other list members have more insight into how these
processes work.
I would like to some day build an SMD and ESDI emulator, but until then there are a lot of
misbehaved drives out there- and if there?s anything that can buy them time, even enough
to get a good read, there?s goodness there.
- I