Willian <willianr@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello folks,

> We are having a little problem on our university lab. We work with a
> Sparkstation 10 with 40 Mhz CPU, 96 MB Ram and Solaris 6.
> For any natural reason the machine stoped working and we discovered
> it was the disk. We installed an IBM with 2.1 GB and installed Solaris
> 6. Before the disk crash we ran SunOS 2.5.
> We need now get the filed from the crashed disk back because we do
> not have backups all the files.
> When trying to use format, it says that the disktype is unknown. We
> tryed to configure it manually with these informations we got at
> internet:

The disk is shagged, that's why it's called "crashed". If the
machine stopped booting because the drive died then what makes you think
you'll be able to get data off the disk? Depending on why the drive
died, i.e. if the bearing froze, then you have a very small chance of
getting the data back. You'll have to take the drive out and bang it
onto something hard (concrete) on the side (not the top or bottom), put
it back in, if it starts/works, BACK IT UP RIGHT THEN, do not turn your
machine off, it probably won't be working for long if this method works
because the bearing will just freeze up again some time soon. If the
electronics or something else are bad, then you might be able to replace
the PC board. You could also pay a fortune to a data recovery company,
it all depends on how much the data is worth to you.

P.S. This method has worked for me on a couple of drives.