is the data lost forever?

From: Kerry Kinnersley <Kinnersleyk_at_pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:28:27 -0700

Hi,

 I have a disk which for some reason stopped working but now after a
re-boot , the first 100 recordsa look like this under "od":
# cat disk-dd-od.lst
0000000 C D C W r e n V I 9 4 1 9
0000020 1 - 7 6 6 c y l 1 6 1 4 a
0000040 l t 2 h d 1 5 s e c 5
0000060 4 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
0000100 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
*
0000640 \0 \0 \0 \0 016 020 006 ` \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 001
0000660 006 N \0 002 \0 017 \0 6 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
0000700 \0 \0 ~ 220 \0 \0 \0 ( \0 \0 375 \0 \0 \0 \0
0000720 \0 023 362 314 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
0000740 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 x
0000760 \0 022 w 034 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 332 276 366 227
0001000 l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l
*
0144000...

now to the best of my knowledge the whole disk looks like '1''s ... any
idea how this night have happened and I suppose the original data that
use to be there is now gone?

thanks

Kerry Kinnersley
IOS
Government of Canada
Received on Fri Aug 24 2001 - 19:29:13 NZST

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