[TUHS] Might Have a DMERT SCSI Disk, Need Help Preserving

segaloco via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Sat Mar 9 13:59:28 AEST 2024


Hello everyone, I reach out in my time of need regarding a potential source of DMERT materials.  I've recently come into possession of a hard disk unit from a 5ESS switch, presumably the 5ESS-2000 variant, part UN 375G:

https://i.imgur.com/yQzY5Hs.jpeg

The actual disk itself appears to be a Ultra320 SCSI disk, which I unfortunately do not have the tools to do anything with myself.  After looking into various solutions, I'm not getting the warm fuzzies about finding the necessary hardware on my first shot, these sorts of hardware specifics are not my strong suit.  The story I got is it is from a working system, so could possibly have artifacts, but at the same time, I've already sunk a little over $1,000 into getting this, I'm hesitant to drop more on hardware I'm not 100% confident is correct for the job.

Does anyone have any recommendations, whether a service, hardware, anything, that I could use to try and get at what is on this disk?  Even if it's just sending it off to someone along with enough storage for them to make me a dd image of the thing, I just feel so close yet so far on finally figuring out if I've managed to land a copy of DMERT.

Thanks in advance for any advice, I'm really hoping that the end of this story is I find DMERT artifacts to get archived and preserved, that would be such a satisfying conclusion to all this 3B20/5ESS study as of late.  I wish I had the resources to see the rest through myself but this is getting into an area I have quite a bit of trepidation regarding.  What I don't want to do is inadvertently damage something by getting it wrong.

- Matt G.


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