SCSI HD problem
 

Hi, has anybody here clue about scsi drives? One of my IBM ultrastars doesn't work anymore. When the controller is checking the bus it detects it's name but spits out a message 'request failed'. What to do? There's some important data on it

Good luck dude. I'd bring it in to a data recovery place if it's that important.

Hard drive might be fried..

Stay away from IBM drives. They are 'by far' the lowest quality scsi drives. Professional help may be able to recover your data, but that will be expensive.

lol, that's exactly what I've thought... thanks anyways

Ontrack.com

I have had to send 2 IBM SCSI drives to them to retrieve data.


This will not be cheap. But they are the best and will retrieve the data.


Rules for dealing with Ontrack:

Lube anal cavity With High Grade Lube (they do not provide this thier lube has sand and halapieno juice added)

Bend over and grasp both ankles (Give as much room as needed this is going to hurt)

The last hard drive I had recovered by them was 4 grand. Payment in full up front of course and no guarantee that they will retrieve Jack. But they have never failed me.

$4000??! How much GB did they recover? That's a ripoff nevertheless.

80 gigs overnight ... it was the cheapest I was able to find.

Go to ibms site and download a utility you can put on a floppy and do some tests. That is the first step to see if you come up with error codes.

It could be your controller card, who knows.

Do you hear any clicks on power up?

nah, it's not the controller... the other three are still running fine. And if tested the damaged HD on another controler with another cable...

And yes.. you can hear it spinning up. The controller detects the drive but says 'request failed' and that's it. Nothing more... but a good hint with IBM site... hopefully I find that tool there, lol

thanks guys

Did you try reseating all the cables and such, on both the drive and the controller?

So what is better than IBM Mr. guy?

Theres a reason most HUGE arrays I've worked with/seen have used IBM.

Seagate is good too, but failure rates are pretty much the same and seagate does cost more.

Treat drives as things that *are* going to fail, it's just a matter of when. The whole moving parts is bad thing.

In any case, I've had great luck with IBM drives, Aside from some DoA SCSI drives I've actually not had one fail in probably 100+ years of run-time (i.e. 100 drives x 1yr)


Can't say the same for micropolis, quantum, and seagate. Just luck though, I know.

-Phil