Drive A is a 500 gig striped RAID. Drive B is a 200 gig IDE drive. I
mv'ed all my data (about 100 gigs) from drive A to drive B. Drive B
then had its power plug fall out (don't ask me how I managed that), I
plugged it back in (stupid!) -- there was a spark -- drive B now won't
spin up, and drive A is essentially "rm -rf"ed.
You probably fried the electronics... if the heads are still OK, you
could recover your data by exchanging the PCB from a brand new drive, with
the fried PCB of the old drive. You need some electronics skillz, but a
friend of mine did this (it was an adventure, as he had to find the same
drive as he had, from ebay, etc) and it worked for him... if something
that's not on the PCB is dead, well, you need a recovery company.
Or you could give $25 to Hans Reiser via his website for an answer ?
