Have you tried using another scsi controller card? You might have to send this one to a data recovery company.
In future make backups and leave another copy on google docs, it's free and easy to use. On 27 February 2012 17:26, sgd <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > Working on my phd, because of lack of space, stupidly was not making > regular > backups. > hdd dies: system was working over night, the next day won't write, says > "read-only file system". > did reboot, won't see the partitions of the disk anymore (The disk is > present on /dev/) > > tried tu rescue with ddrescue (1.15)... > > 1st Run: > /usr/local/bin/ddrescue -n /dev/sdb /mnt/tmp/temp/imagefile > /mnt/tmp/temp/image.logfile > > Press Ctrl-C to interrupt > rescued: 0 B, errsize: 0 B, current rate: 0 B/s > ipos: 0 B, errors: 0, average rate: 0 B/s > opos: 0 B, time from last successful read: 1 s > Finished > > ----------------------- > Second Run: > /usr/local/bin/ddrescue -d -r3 /dev/sdb /mnt/tmp/temp/imagefile > /mnt/tmp/temp/image.logfile > > > Press Ctrl-C to interrupt > rescued: 0 B, errsize: 0 B, current rate: 0 B/s > ipos: 0 B, errors: 0, average rate: 0 B/s > opos: 0 B, time from last successful read: 1 s > Finished > > ------------------------ > Fourth run: > > /usr/local/bin/ddrescue -i1 -n /dev/sdb /mnt/tmp/temp/imagefile > /mnt/tmp/temp/image.logfile > > > Press Ctrl-C to interrupt > Initial status (read from logfile) > rescued: 0 B, errsize: 9223 PB, errors: 1 > Current status > rescued: 0 B, errsize: 9223 PB, current rate: 0 B/s > ipos: 0 B, errors: 1, average rate: 0 B/s > opos: 0 B, time from last successful read: 0 s > Finished > > #Petabytes!!!?? > > ------------------------- > > Fifth run: > > /usr/local/bin/ddrescue -i1 -d -r3 /dev/sdb /mnt/tmp/temp/imagefile > /mnt/tmp/temp/image.logfile > > > Press Ctrl-C to interrupt > Initial status (read from logfile) > rescued: 0 B, errsize: 9223 PB, errors: 1 > Current status > rescued: 0 B, errsize: 9223 PB, current rate: 0 B/s > ipos: 1152 PB, errors: 1, average rate: 0 B/s > opos: 1152 PB, time from last successful read: 16 s > ^Clitting failed blocks... > Interrupted by user > > -------------------------------------------- > > Sixth run: > > /usr/local/bin/ddrescue -i1 -s146815733760 -d -r3 /dev/sdb > /mnt/tmp/temp/imagefile /mnt/tmp/temp/image.logfile > > > Press Ctrl-C to interrupt > Initial status (read from logfile) > rescued: 0 B, errsize: 146 GB, errors: 1 > Current status > rescued: 0 B, errsize: 146 GB, current rate: 0 B/s > ipos: 98768 MB, errors: 1, average rate: 0 B/s > opos: 98768 MB, time from last successful read: 21 s > Splitting failed blocks... > Interrupted by user. > > #ipos and opos keeps cycling from several MB to thousand of MB... > > > The disk: (SAS) SCSI SEAGATE, Model: ST3146854SS, 136.7 GB > (146,815,733,760 > bytes). > > What I am doing wrong? what could be done? please help!!!! > > Guillermo. > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/ddrescue-strange%28-%29-behavour-tp33400471p33400471.html > Sent from the Gnu - ddrescue mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-ddrescue mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue > -- Kind Regards Reon Toerien __________________ PO Box 540 Ballito 4420 South Africa Tel: +27 (0) 83 270 2889 email: [email protected]
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