On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday 31 July 2010 16:33:18 Dale wrote: >> Kacper Kopczyński wrote: >> > Dnia 2010-07-31, o godz. 16:15:51 >> > >> > Volker Armin Hemmann<volkerar...@googlemail.com> napisał(a): >> >> On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Kacper Kopczyński wrote: >> >>> Hi, >> >>> >> >>> My problem is really strange - I can't access my hard drive from >> >>> linux, but it works from windows without problems. It has some bad >> >>> blocks. >> >> >> >> it has a lot of bad blocks and a fucked up firmware it seems. No way >> >> it is working 'without problems'. >> > >> > Well total space taken by bad blocks according to chkdsk is less than >> > 1MB, windows is still able to access all data. Linux is only able to >> > see partition table "for a while" - as you can see in dmesg. >> > >> > If firmware is broken then how it is possible that windows is able to >> > use this disk? >> >> Maybe windoze is ignoring the problem? It's not like windoze has never >> done that before right? >> >> Just a thought. > > Couldn't it be that the MSWindows partition has no bad blocks, while Linux > does? > > -- > Regards, > Mick >
Not likely, though just looking at *how* it fails, if the data'd not already been backed up, I'd hold at least a little hope that it's not really a problem with the on-disk data, aside from what's been corrupted since the problems started, but rather just the controller and firmware. If I had a spare drive from the same batch, I'd swap in the not-dying controller card and see if that got me anywhere. Since the drive's already backed up, though... that one's a new paperweight for the desk, and if the data's anything sensitive, physical destruction of the drive's the way I'd go to 'secure' it before it goes out with the trash. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
