Tough interview questions.

Fri Aug 13 14:28:21 PDT 2004

<quote who="Alvin Oga">
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Mark C. Langston wrote:
>
>> A machine for which you're responsible has suffered a catostrophic
>> disk failure.  Backups are not available.  Reinstallation is not an
>> option.
>> Explain the steps you'd take to recover the data on the system.
>
> if moving the disk or booting off something else is not permitted, in
> the far away colo, i still think one is s.o.l... for not having backups

If you can get your hands on the disk, you can try swapping the
drive controller board, with a working one from another drive (same
model.)

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