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I have a NeXT (Maxtor) 660 MB drive that has given up the ghost as a result of  
a couple power hits while I was away on vacation. Here are the symptoms:

When I try to boot off the drive, I get the following as part of the boot  
sequence:

READ CAPACITY: sdcmd bad state:0
dev blk len?

I was able to boot off the OD, and get the following:

SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2114000
MAXTOR  XT-8760S as sd0 at sc0 target 0 lun 0
sd0 (0,0): ERROR op:0x25 sd_state:7 scsi status:0x0
ERROR: Can't read device capacity
ERROR op:0x1a sd_state:7 scsi status:0x0
DISK UNFORMATTED
Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7

and then:

sd0 (0,0): scsi_timer: timeout op:0x8 sd_state:0 scsi status:0x0

and

     SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label)

When I try mounting it  I just get an I/O error

mount: /dev/sd0a on /mnt: I/O error


Of course I have data that was not backed up on the disk, that I would like to  
retrieve. :-(

Maxtor will sell me a PCBA board controller for the disk for $450 (cheaper than  
the NeXT repair charge, and the estimates I have had for salvaging data off the  
disk).  Anyone have an idea if this *might* fix things? Could the problem be in  
the controller and not the media?  Any other suggestions?  Anyone seen a Norton  
UtilitiesLook-Alike for a NeXT?

Dan Oberst
oberst@sparcwood.princeton.edu