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dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote: >On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:49:00PM -0500, Bill Horne wrote: > > >>which shows /dev/hdc1 and /dev/hdc5. I understand /dev/hdc5, (assuming >>jazz drives have the same format as Zip disks), but /dev/hdc1 has me >>_very_ confused. >> >> > > >[snip] > >>However, I _AM_ able to mount _BOTH_ /dev/hdc1 and /dev/hdc5, and I >>can transfer data from /dev/hdc1 to the new, shrink-wrapped jazz disk >>mounted as /dev/hdc5. Moreover, the client recognizes the data I'm >>able to move! >> >> > >This I don't understand. /dev/hdc1 ought to be on that Jaz disk >as well. > >-dsr- > > > That't the mystery! My client (not the machine, but the human who hired me) verified the directory and file names I copied from /dev/hdc1 to /dev/hdc5, and confirmed that they were originally on the hard drive! Yet, the hard drive is _definitely_ wired to the Primary Master IDE port, and I get (as expected) disk seek/read errors when I try to mount /devhda[1-4]. The Jazz disk was shrink-wrapped: there is no way the client's data could have gotton on to it before the Maxtor drive failed, no matter what partition. Thanks for your input. Bill -- E. William Horne William Warren Consulting http://william_warren.home.comcast.net 781 784-7287
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