Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!nic.MR.NET!tank!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!gistqa!gistdev!jeff From: jeff@gistdev Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: 6386 and Dead Priam Hard Drive Message-ID: <8300001@gistdev> Date: 12 Nov 88 01:23:00 GMT Lines: 39 Nf-ID: #N:gistdev:8300001:000:1510 Nf-From: gistdev!jeff Nov 11 19:23:00 1988 We have a BIG problem: We have an AT&T 6386WGS running ISC 386/ix with a Priam ID130-AT 133MB Hard Disk, Western Digital WD1006-WAH Hard Disk Controller, 4MB memory, Versanet-40 ports card, Micom Ethernet card, IEV Video-overlay combo and a Paradise EGA-480 video card. The disk is partitioned with 8MB swap, 20MB "/" , 52MB "/usr" and 52MB "/usr2". Our problem is this: the disk died. It looks like an area under "/" went bad. We can boot to a point where most drivers are loaded and then we get a panic trap. The VTOC seems to be scrozzed as well. As far as we can tell, /usr and /usr2 are ok. We have some VERY important source code under /usr2 that for some stupid reason (cost of media) wasn't backed up for over a month and a half. Considerable development went on during that time and now we have a deadline to release the program and we can't get at it. Is it possible to mount the /usr2 partition on another machine running the same configuration? If so, how do we do it? If that isn't possible, I have heard of a company in Minnesota (I think) that specializes in recovering data from crashed disks. Does anyone know anything about this? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. *----------------------------------------------------------------------* #include Jeff Johnson Global Information Systems Technology, Inc. 1800 Woodfield Drive Savoy, IL 61874 (217) 352-1165 ARPANET: jeff%gistdev%gistqa@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu UUCP: ...uiucuxc!gistqa!gistdev!jeff