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.
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