-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/10/2010 01:49 PM, walt wrote: > On 10/10/2010 09:28 AM, Fatih Tümen wrote: > >> That I was fearing but I cant understand how it can fail all of a >> sudden. I did not drop it or something. Just ran eix and boom... > > My favorite disk failure story: I made a backup copy of my boot > sector with 'dd if=/dev/hda of=bootblock.bak bs=512 count=1'. > > That disk started giving hardware read/write errors immediately > after that, and never again booted successfully. > > I was afraid to use dd for at least a year :/ > > I recently had a drive from a computer that I had picked up and was told that it probably had a virus slowing down Windoze. I started to back up the drive before cleaning it up and discovered bad blocks all over the drive. when scanning the surface with MHDD from sysresccd the drive looked like swiss cheese with about 300 Uncorrectable bad blocks and the bios on that machine would have warned if SMART wasn't turned off...
Too bad I hadn't heard of ddrescue. I might have been able to pull off more data. :/ - -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMst4YAAoJEISPTA/exVD8ar4H/3YzX/5OitxNTIszUIXwolmy o9viGXLVH8KLbrzvk8nMq5YzjUPkKQ6h9WDGS0zuXhesIP2OqoWYeDHXHYVcou8z i6kXwBld+eOODZnSbHUgyji00uSYyy0YqhkN2QHzc1+FbSGs8x+JV/h0Hje+bX+H n0PhvnUCJeBNQZ6KvaZ0SRe50RqJ3rWJL/Qm8mCY0bS7g6bE1r7r6jxHordpXlOR Wm8oAi6TYR/do9IfYnGyqYROMh21hQ4Fj6YYDKqeIFsNNjY0J7ElO2TSLDjwrk2D nAWn+AhNhJnR40yqoECgbz3QE3PN/zmrZoaRWKT2qmg3+k46OjAwfPU7mp5pvtY= =PJoA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
