Data recovery is always a crapshoot, even with the most sophisticated and
expensive tools. Back when I reviewed SpinRite, it did not have any data
recovery. Back when I reviewed SpinRite, the prevailing drives were MFM and
RLL, with ESDI and SCSI on servers. IDE was still a wet dream... Ben Myers

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:15:53 -0400, JayB wrote:

spinrite is not all that its cracked up to be.
i'm disappointed in it for data recovery.


Ben Myers wrote:
Gibson Research can't spell my name. A lot of people can't. Their web site
cites a quote from an article I wrote in the last century, mid-90's or even
before. I guess I could pull Steve's chain and ask him to fix the spelling.

... Ben Myers

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:40:34 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Can't Gibson Research spell...or is this a different Ben M. ?

http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm

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