5 May
2010
5 May
'10
4:25 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Foust" <jfoust at threedee.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: Drive recovery
At 03:44 PM 5/5/2010, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I don't see the point of this. There are few people who can get the data of
a dead drive, their knowledge is a black art. If your data is worth $1000 to
recover they pay it and don't bother reverse engineering what was done.
Seems to me that kind of job is billed at whatever they want at the time and
not at a cost per procedure level.
...or simply popped the existing NVRAM out to
reprogram it. Hard to
say. But don't most states require that if parts are replaced that
they be itemized on the inovice and the original parts be made
available to the owner?
Pulling and properly reprogramming an NVRAM on a Deskstar is
an esoteric skill. Whether it's an $800 skill is another matter.
They put a security sticker over a spot on the original label,
at the location of some sort of head screw. They didn't scar the
label much to access it. Because the sticker was there, said
the tech, they must've opened it.
I could haggle as to whether they'd cleaned the dust off the seals
sufficiently to enter the clean room.
- John