Dominique Dumont wrote:
> "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Find a way to attach that drive to a functional system. One way would
>> be to use a 2.5" portable USB enclosure.
>
> No. from my experience USB will hang if the drive hit a wrong sector.
>
I had inserted the disk i
KS wrote:
I connected the old hard disk via firewire to the powerbook and compiled
ddrescue to run on the G4 (new HDD and 10.4.11). It is just giving I/O
error in the syslog. I can't even be mounted. ddrescue has read 3MB in
the last half an hour and rescue zero bytes :(
Any other suggestions?
On 01/11/08 14:43, KS wrote:
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I connected the old hard disk via firewire to the powerbook and compiled
ddrescue to run on the G4 (new HDD and 10.4.11). It is just giving I/O
error in the syslog. I can't even be mounted. ddrescue has read 3MB in
the last half an hour and rescue zero bytes :
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:21:37 -0500, "Brian McKee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> On 11-Jan-08, at 3:43 PM, KS wrote:
> > I connected the old hard disk via firewire to the powerbook and
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> > ddrescue to run on the G4 (new HDD and 10
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On 11-Jan-08, at 3:43 PM, KS wrote:
I connected the old hard disk via firewire to the powerbook and
compiled
ddrescue to run on the G4 (new HDD and 10.4.11). It is just giving I/O
error in the syslog. I can't even be mounted. ddrescue has read 3MB
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:31:57 -0500, "Douglas A. Tutty"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> Perhaps, I've never needed to go that far. The one time I thought I had
> a hard drive go bad and put it into another computer, it didn't get any
> errors on boot. I just fsck'ed it and it was fine. Turned out
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Find a way to attach that drive to a functional system. One way would
> be to use a 2.5" portable USB enclosure.
No. from my experience USB will hang if the drive hit a wrong sector.
You should:
- attach the disk to an internal IDE (or sata) cab
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:47:56PM -0500, KS wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:19:54PM -0500, KS wrote:
> >> I have a friend's G4(PPC) which seems to have a dying disk. He had run
> >> the Apple disk utility and it reported and error with the IDE disk. The
> >> machine
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:19:54PM -0500, KS wrote:
>> I have a friend's G4(PPC) which seems to have a dying disk. He had run
>> the Apple disk utility and it reported and error with the IDE disk. The
>> machine just halts sometimes, with the disk trying to read something
KS:
>
> I have a friend's G4(PPC) which seems to have a dying disk. He had run
> the Apple disk utility and it reported and error with the IDE disk.
I am in exactly the same situation, currently. My approach is to use
dd_rescue (package name: ddrescue) to dump the disk's content and now I
am abou
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:19:54PM -0500, KS wrote:
> I have a friend's G4(PPC) which seems to have a dying disk. He had run
> the Apple disk utility and it reported and error with the IDE disk. The
> machine just halts sometimes, with the disk trying to read something and
> the only way to shut do
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 01/08/08 16:42, KS wrote:
>>
>> I agree 6GB will take time to transfer, but there was no change in the
>> size of the directory where I was dumping. Plus the activity monitor on
>> the G4 was not showing any network transfer. I did wait for about half
>> an hour though.
>
>
On 01/08/08 16:42, KS wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 01/08/08 16:19, KS wrote:
Hi,
I have a friend's G4(PPC) which seems to have a dying disk. He had run
Linux or OSX?
OS X Tiger on the G4(PPC)
the Apple disk utility and it reported and error with the IDE disk. The
machine just halts someti
Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>> shut down the machine and trying to list various options of salvaging
>> the data from the HDD. I was reading up on dd_rescue (had tried it on a
>> couple of CDs earlier), foremost, and Sleuthkit. Does anyone have any
>> recommendations on how to proceed in this case? Any l
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 01/08/08 16:19, KS wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a friend's G4(PPC) which seems to have a dying disk. He had run
>
> Linux or OSX?
OS X Tiger on the G4(PPC)
>> the Apple disk utility and it reported and error with the IDE disk. The
>> machine just halts sometimes, with the d
On 01/08/08 16:19, KS wrote:
Hi,
I have a friend's G4(PPC) which seems to have a dying disk. He had run
Linux or OSX?
the Apple disk utility and it reported and error with the IDE disk. The
machine just halts sometimes, with the disk trying to read something and
the only way to shut down the
Hi,
I have a friend's G4(PPC) which seems to have a dying disk. He had run
the Apple disk utility and it reported and error with the IDE disk. The
machine just halts sometimes, with the disk trying to read something and
the only way to shut down the machine was the power button.
I tried doing an
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