Disks Corrupted after SCSI Conflict

[pinto_guy]

So I had two perfectly good HDD's in two different external enclosures. One was big (1.7 GB), and the other one that I just revived from the "Sticky Actuator" syndrome, a 40MB Quantum Prodrive. I wanted to copy the content from the 40MB into the 1.7GB. So I daisy chained both of them to my SE, not realizing that they both had the same SCSI address. This usually leads to a system hanging at some point, which it did. After turning everything off, I changed the SCSI address of the 40MB and rebooted.  Unfortunately, neither drives can now mount. The 40MB says "Uninitialized", and the 1.7GB strangely bears the name of the 40MB, seems to mount but then say "Disk is damaged, do you want to initialize?".

So I'm afraid that I lost my data, but before I re-initialize, I thought I'd post here and ask if anyone has an idea on how to recover these partitions.

Thanks

 

[pinto_guy]

Update: I was able to salvage the 40MB drive, using Silverlining 5.6.1. When I chose the drive after it recognized it, I got an message saying the volume info was bad, and asking me to revert. The revert worked !

But I could not rescue the 1.7GB drive and I had to reinitialize. Fortunately, I had a backup