Thanks to the help from Dale, Galen and King Beowulf the drive is now functioning normally and I have copied all the files to another drive.
I assumed that my next step would be to take the drive to the nearest Seagate store and throw it through their front window. I came to this conclusion because after fixing the superblock I had to run a manual e2fsck, which rewrote a dozen blocks and fixed lots of inodes and whatnot. However, Palimpsest now says the drive is healthy. Looking at the Smart data in detail everything looks fine (although I don't understand the numbers), except for Airflow Temperature, which merely says it has failed in the past. Everything else is a lovely green color. So now I'm wondering if the drive really is OK. Maybe it just got goobered up by being unplugged without unmounting first. (I have not followed the best practices here.) The warranty is only two years, and I've had it for a year or so. And if you ask Mr. Google, these drives have a high failure rate. Seagate's web site has a diagnostic utility, but 1) I'm sure it only runs on Windows and, 2) I bet it just reads the Smart data. If the latter, it would announce that the drive is fine and Seagate would try to weasel out of the warranty. Are there any Linux disk utilities that will really stress the drive to make sure it is really OK? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
