With a help of our new SCSI data recovery complex, we pulled 100% of Microsoft Exchange databases from a Seagate SCSI drive belonging to British Curriculum International School. The kind of a failure was quite common for Seagate SCSI drives: SCSI controller shows “Medium Error”; Drive Capacity is indicated as 0 (or in Linux logs the message “Read Capacity failed” can be seen), the drive serial number is displayed correctly in the diagnostic utilities.
Another successful data recovery from a Toshiba hard disk drive with a bearing problem (this drive has a fluid dynamic bearing). Actually Toshiba is an absolute leader for this kind of HDD failures. This time we recorded an MP3 for you, how the drive sounded when it was brought to us:
Toshiba HDD bearing problem
Today computers in our office, an a few customers of ours, while trying to send email via smtp.totisp.net (or smtp-adsl.totonline.net) received the following message from a server:
“The evaluation license has expired”. For example, my Mozilla Thunderbird shows it like this:
I decided to check the server directly:
telnet smtp.totisp.net 25
Trying 118.175.8.10…
Connected to ruhk-010.totisp.net.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
421 The evaluation license has expired.
Connection closed by foreign host
Looks like TOT did not pay for a software it is using! Remember what TOT is also blocking outgoing port 25, and people cannot use other SMTP servers (unless they use alternate port number)?
Our new SCSI data recovery hardware/software complex should arrive soon, allowing us to do certain new things with SCSI drives we was not able to do before.
Metal grilles beloved by Compaq/HP are not suitable for a tropical climate; this is a worst example as the grilles are contacting with the hands and the sweat make them rust very quickly.
Was sold in China to one of our customers as 1Gb drive for a very low price; the actual capacity of the flash chip is just 64Mb. Controller is programmed to report 1Gb to the PC. Note what the markings on the flash chip are sanded off.
