On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:38:22 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Using SCSI hardware isnt' brain surgery. I'm > > sure that there are IDE tape > > drives out there, but i've never used them, and > > can't vouch for their > > performance or reliability. > > I didn't mean that- I'm sure I can figure out pluggin a card into the PCI slot > and adding drives. It's more I don't know what controllers are good, etc.
Adaptec makes good SCSI controllers. Symbios are not bad either. Not sure about any of the others. > > > OK, I'll look into that. Do you know of any > > good retailers (pref. online)? > > > > Not really. I usually go with whoever sells > > what i'm looking for the > > least amount of money. Ecrix tape drives are > > expensive, i'm not going to > > mince words, and they're definitely outside of > > your budget range. > > I've noticed the Seagates are about $20 cheaper than anything else (Sonys are > the next step up) on Pricewatch. Are they any good? I don't know anything about Seagate tape drives (they might be good, they might be bad). SONY are pretty good. > > > And back to the original question. Is there > > any chance of recovering the > > > partition table? If I don't have the data to > > back up, there's not too much > > > sense having something to back it up to. > > > > Like i already said, if you're certain of the > > partition sizes & > > boundaries, you could always recreate them from > > scratch, and your data > > will be safe. If linux fdisk can't see > > partitions, then i dont know what > > there is to recover. > > Should I trust the Bootit NG partition table readout? I find it kind of odd > that Bootit has a partition table for the drive, as does WindeXP, but Linux > doesn't. Right now, you've got nothing, so you don't have much of a choice but to trust this 'bootit NG' thing (i have no clue what that is). Take your chances, roll the dice, and hope for the best. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
