[Novalug] disk :(

Mark Smith mark@winksmith.com
Wed Jun 18 17:14:10 EDT 2008


i know a guy who recovered a disk that way... i thought the underlying
problem he was experiencing was due to the controller hardware mounted
on the disk.  heat caused the problem.

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:47:44AM -0400, Pete Nuwayser wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:29 AM, David A. Cafaro <dac@cafaro.net> wrote:
> 
> <...>
> > This can sometimes work when you have the clicking issue, the freezing
> > can change physical properties of the metal inside the drive long
> > enough for it to start working again.  It won't work in every case
> > though, but so far I've had a very good record with this technique.
> 
> That rocks.  I love it.

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Mark Smith
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