Though this is not a hard-drive info thread, someone's complaint about Maxtor drives caught my attention, since I have been experiencing similar issues - quite a few drives have been just going bad all of a sudden after working fine for a month or two - the time-to-failure duration is random; My experience has been primarily with the Maxstor 250 and 300 GB drives - which the company claims are "near-line" drives. are there any other reliable drives that anyone has tested ? Thanks in Advance! --- Toby Bluhm <tkb9@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Steve Watford wrote: > > >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: > >> > >> > >>>-----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)... > >>> > >>> > >>Ack! I've had too many failures with Maxtor disks. > >> > >>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. > > -- > > Toby Bluhm > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users