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.