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  Need to defrag and re-build old SCSI Medea drive

  Posted by Matt Kerstein on March 25, 2010 at 9:18 pm

  Hello,
  We have a old FCP running a old Aurora igniterX card so we are dead ended with OS 10.2 to keep it running and we are having issues with one of the Medea drives. Problem is we cant find a disk warrior ver 3.0 or 3.2 that will run on that OS. Any ideas?

  Aloha & Mahalo from Maui

  Fred Jodry replied 16 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Bob Zelin

  March 26, 2010 at 2:05 am

  What I am confused about, is that a new 1 Terabyte drive cost less than a copy of Disk Warrior, and is (probably) bigger than your Medea drive that is having problems. Why not just buy a 1TB Hitachi drive for $89 dollars, throw the Medea in a volcano, and call it a day (and then no need for Disk Warrior).

  Bob Zelin
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  Matt Kerstein

  March 26, 2010 at 2:25 am

  Bob,
  that’s a valid point but it’s a a company system and they would like to keep her limping along without spending any $$$. Just gonna transfer and wipe.. That outta do it. Just was hoping to avoid the time.
  Aloha
  Matt

  Aloha & Mahalo from Maui
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  Fred Jodry

  March 26, 2010 at 4:03 pm

  Bob`s right. The shortcut to success is to fix it right away instead of undergoing unexpected bleeding. Save the remaining SCSI hardware for a downgrading machine like bumping a video production SCSI set down to a publishing computer, or another example would be taking a SCSI Raid internet set, drop it down to a new employees teaching computer, and moving a couple of jumpers on the card or similar, to turn off the Raid and use JBOD with SCSI utilities still turned on. I hope that I described something in your area of use.

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