Gary Gatten wrote:
I had a laptop years ago that started to die, but seemed to work OK when
first removed from a cold car. After an hour or so it would die. I
eventually put it in the freezer long enough to get what I needed off
the drive, so in some cases I would agree that cold is good!
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From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Polytropon
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:13 PM
To: George Davidovich
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: hard disk failure - now what?
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:13:48 -0700, George Davidovich
<free...@optimis.net> wrote:
Probably true. I hesitate to suggest this, but sticking the drive in
a
freezer (preferrably in a ziplock bag) for a few hours or overnight
might help. Stories from people claiming "I swear it works!" go back
years.
I heared a similar suggestion from a guy who tried to get the
protection code out of a car radio. :-)
To the exent it does work, it might give Kelly enough time to attempt
recovery. If more time is required, he can try and find a creative
workaround for the 5 meter max length for USB cables.
5 meters? I always thought USB is specified for 2 meters only.
I've never seen a 5 meters long USB cable, by the way.
Aloha,
Off Topic but very funny as well as interesting.
I have a usb cable that I bought it on line and have used it for a
small video camera that is 15 meters long and it works OK.
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