[Info-vax] Best way to get what I can off a failed VMS Disk?

[Chris Townley]

On 24/10/2020 14:18, abrsvc wrote:
> On Saturday, 24 October 2020 08:49:42 UTC-4, Chris Townley  wrote:
>> I have a failing ODS-2 disk in my Alpha (HPE VMS 8.3)
>>
>> What is the best way to recover those files that are recoverable, with
>> the drive going into mount verify?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Chris
> 
> A lot depends upon the reason for the failure.  I have had success replacing  the controller board on an SBB drive with another to read the "failing" drive.  Both must be the same however.
> 
> Any idea where the failure is?  Controller, disk itself?
> 
It is a hobbyist machine. Only real interest is to save some interesting 
bits when I ported the work AXP to I64 - work after my last backup.

SCSI controller is fine - I am booting off that and I have added another 
disk.

I will try the backup/physical approach - after chilling the disk! 
Presumably followed by anal/disk/repair on the new disk?

Chris