[Sca-cooks] Stefans Crash?

[Sudden Service #5]

I have all the digest for the past year or so on my drive would you like me
to forward the past month's to you?
Olaf
----- Original Message -----
> Unfortunately, I had a hard disk failure last Friday. Even more
> unfortunately, I've been procrastinating getting my systems set up for
> backups. I think the newest backup I have is probably a year old,
> although I think I have my email through February on another disk.
> Unfortunately, this means I have none of the Tile Project stuff that I
> had saved on my own disk.
>
> If you sent me any messages since February, and they were saved in a
> 'sent' folder, could you please send them to me again?
>
> Also, if you were on my list of editors to get my Florilegium article
> (which was due to be sent out on Saturday, the day after the crash :-(
> ) could you contact me so I can get your name and email address again?
>
> I may be able to get some of this stuff from the SCA-Cooks archives,
> but I'm still trying to put things back together here.
>
> The bid on retrieving the data from the dead drive is ~$1800, so that
> is probably not going to happen. Since it looks like this was due to
> the PCB board on the drive failing, I may be able to recover the data
> IF I can get a new PCB board for this specific (or near enough) drive
> model. I guess I'll be keeping my eyes on ebay. But if anyone knows of
> a dead (if head crash, not electronic failure) or alive Quantum Viking
> II 9.1 Gbyte 80 pin SCSI drive with a part number of PX09L011, please
> let me know. :-)
>
> Stefan
> And maybe if you haven't backed your drive up in a while, you should...