Yes, I downloaded the Maxtor diagnostic program and installed to a diskette. It reports that the drive is failing and to back up right away returning a diagnostic code for an RMA. Oh well, guess it really is hardware. I will be dd'ing it over to another drive and sending this one back. Then I'll work on it from there.
What would be the exact syntax for the dd command for the entire disk as you suggested? I will be installing a parallel drive in the morning, also a 160GB drive as /dev/hdc with the bad one being /dev/hda. The bad drive is nowhere near full, but is the max file size a problem still? I shouldn't do just partitions instead? Although the one with the actual problem is a 100GB partition, although only about 20% full. Around 22 Gig all together on the drive.
Thanks for the help, Steve
On Thursday 20 May 2004 10:51 pm, Toby Bluhm wrote:
evilninja wrote:
Ack! I've had too many failures with Maxtor disks.-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
Steve Watford schrieb: | Thanks, | I'll give dd a try for backup puposes. I have already tried to fsck | the | partition it just comes back with a short read error. Asking if it is | a zero
always be careful to check an already damaged disk: | Steve Watford schrieb: | | hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } | | hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=90895772,
being not a professional but a normal user i think this really looks like some hw issues. so i'd suggest better to copy (dd) all the data from the disk, as long as you have time to. every additional use of the disk may cause its final death.
i wonder why your other partitions *seem* to still be ok (e.g. "mount"
and using its data then succeeds)...
Anyway, use conv=sync,noerror with your dd command, preferably to an identical disk. Do the entire disk /dev/hda. Yes, it will take a very long time, but you have no other recourse if you want maintain all your data. Then fsck the new disk. Fsck on the bad disk may just make matters worse.
Download Maxtor's ide utility & see if you can fix the bad one - may require a total disk rewrite.
Nothing unusual about the other partitions being okay - just a matter
of location of the sectors on the platter(s). Be suspicious of the
entire disk though.
You may as well do the entire disk:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1k conf=sync,noerror
Install the new disk as hda & run your fsck on hda3.
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Toby Bluhm
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