Alright; how do you read smart data from the command line? NB: I have smartmontools installed, dated 2011-10-20 r3458
... yea, 5 years old ... I use it to monitor disk drive temp in the logs. Keep in mind: When I tried booting up to the gui, I got to some windows being opened, and just being blank white, nothing else happened. And since that means writing to a damaged drive, I'm trying to avoid that. Drive Genius ... will look into that, thank you On 2016-03-26, at 8:36 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > If your drive has SMART data available, this question may already be answered. > > Drive Genius scan/extended does what you want to do as safely as it is > possible to do it (which may still lose some data) and has been well > pre-tested for you. > >> On Mar 26, 2016, at 8:30 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> OK, now for a switch: a DD question. >> >> I was able to read the entire drive (cat /dev/rdisk0 > /dev/null) without >> error. >> So, I want to try a "write each sector back in place", to see if the drive >> is still alive or dying. >> >> My thinking was simple: >> >> dd if=/dev/rdisk0 of=/dev/rdisk0 bs=2560 >> >> thinking that would would read 10 sectors, write those same 10 sectors, and >> then continue. >> >> My concern? With the same file for input and output, would it write starting >> at block 0, or would it read 0-9, and then write 10-19? >> >> Also: Is there a better way to re-write the contents of a hard drive? >> >> >> On 2016-03-26, at 7:14 PM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I believe it would use an Ultra ATA/100 hard drive (60GB?). Not sure about >>> availability of those anymore... >>> -Carl >>> >>>> On Mar 26, 2016, at 7:10 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hmm ... what kind of drive do I put in this laptop? >>>> >>>> iBook G4, 15 inch ... 1 GB memory. >>>> >>>> (I use it primarily for a second screen, and playing dos games in QEMU). >>>> >>>> On 2016-03-26, at 7:08 PM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Disk Warrior can work wonders, but you'd probably be better off getting a >>>>> new drive for that $120, and reloading your Time Machine backup onto it. >>>>> When you start getting file system corruption, it's usually the fault of >>>>> the disk (as I learned the hard way :O) >>>>> -Carl >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On Mar 26, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> At $120, it's not worth that much :-). >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm wondering if I could get a reinstall from the genius bar. >>>>>> >>>>>> On 2016-03-26, at 4:33 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> If you have disk warrior, boot from it and try to repair the drive. If >>>>>>> you don't have it, it's really, really worth getting. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Mar 26, 2016, at 3:59 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I have an iBook G4, running 10.5.8. Today, it rebooted on me, at >>>>>>>> "random". >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> During startup, it complained about problems with the root file >>>>>>>> system, and said that an fsck would be forced at next startup. So, I >>>>>>>> forced a reboot from the login screen. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Naturally, it did not do the fsck. So, a reboot into single user mode. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Fsck -f tells me the following: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Checking Journaled HFS plus volume >>>>>>>> Checking extents overflow file >>>>>>>> Checking catalog file >>>>>>>> Keys out of order (4, 704) >>>>>>>> Rebuilding catalog B-tree >>>>>>>> The volume could not be repaired >>>>>>>> Exited with signal 8 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> What do I do at this point to recover? I have a full time machine >>>>>>>> backup. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> --- >>>>>>>> Entertaining minecraft videos >>>>>>>> http://YouTube.com/keybounce >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> MacOSX-talk mailing list >>>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>>> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> --- >>>>>> Entertaining minecraft videos >>>>>> http://YouTube.com/keybounce >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> MacOSX-talk mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >>>>> >>>> >>>> --- >>>> Entertaining minecraft videos >>>> http://YouTube.com/keybounce >>>> >>> >> >> --- >> Entertaining minecraft videos >> http://YouTube.com/keybounce >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
