Anno domini 2020 Thu, 10 Sep 15:44:58 -0700
 Mike Bird via tde-users scripsit:
> On Thu September 10 2020 14:26:20 William Morder via trinity-users via 
> tde-users wrote:
> > Do I need to identify (or calculate the position) of these bad blocks?
> 
> I don't mean this disrespectfully but just to better apprise you
> of your situation.
> 
> What you're doing is kind of like brain surgery and if you're
> doing brain surgery and you're asking a diabetics mailing list
> whether it's OK to remove this lumpy bit then you probably
> shouldn't be doing brain surgery.
> 
> I have a master's in computer science and a lifetime of experience
> and if I have to recover a hard drive in that kind of state I do a
> lot of reading and studying.  Sometimes I have to read the source
> code of a tool to see what it is really doing.  If I have to ask a
> question I ask subject matter experts, not users of this magnificent
> desktop environment.  And with all that I don't always succeed.

Now that you mention brain surgery ... there was that old put-that-disk-in-the-fridge-trick. Remember some unpleasent situations with cables running from the wrong side of the fridge and a stressed guy defending that assembly against zombies trying to steal strawberry icecream which happed to be an essental part of the plan ... might be it was myself :)

nik

> 
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