On 12/14/24 06:23, gene heskett wrote:
On 12/14/24 00:52, David Christensen wrote:
Have you contacted Seagate to see if the drives are eligible for
Rescue Data Recovery Services?
https://www.seagate.com/products/rescue-data-recovery/
Screw seagate with a hot branding iron., they used the marketplace to
test a tech that wasn't ready for prime time and likely never will be.
In my employment history I learned a thing or two about helium as I
probably tested the pressure regulatores that gave John Glenn his first
rides, primarily that man has no material that will contain it, the
molecule is so small it walks right thru 2" of monel metal, about 10% of
it a day.. Seagate filled those drives with helium because it allows the
head to fly closeer to the disk, but a month later the helium was gone.
Then it turned out they were shingled, meaning the tracks were partially
overlapped. They used me for a lab rat and I damned sure didn't
appreciate that, not when it was my $250. Seagate will never again get
a penny from me.
26 years of lost data is huge. If you can ship your failed drives to
Seagate and get back new drives with all or part of your data, then that
is worth a try. Fill out the Seagate web page for each drive, submit,
and see what happens. Document everything.
What is the make and model of the failed drives? I see your complaints
in the mail list archives starting around May 30, 2022, but not those
details:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/05/msg00823.html
David
