my 10g deskstar has worked fine for years (I did have some issues shortly
after purchase, but I did work them out...) It was $200 when I bought it, you
figure out how old it is :)
Jamie
On Saturday 11 January 2003 11:28 pm, Mr O wrote:
: Thus the older Deskstar drives have earned themselves the
I'd have to say that your drive is beyond warranty. 10GB @ $200
was beyond 3 years ago. The Gateway I bought a few years back
when they used to make good computers had a 27.3 GB drive. Also
of note, I haven't really seen that many smaller drives (=10GB)
fail as often. Mostly 40, 45, and 60GB have
The only partition that I can even fsck is /boot. All the others give
me the same error. I'm only really concerned with getting data off of
/home -- the personal stuff. I can re-install debian and get set up
pretty quickly otherwise.
So, I'll probably order a new drive and see about sending
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Rob Hudson wrote:
...
I'm not exactly looking forward to the extraction process, but I'm going
to try to load up on knowledge before hand and see what I can salvage
(if anything).
Rob, it sounds like bits and bytes *continue* crubling away while the
drive is spinning.
I'm writing euglug in a time of need...
This morning, I sat down at my linux workstation only to find it stuck
and not doing anything. The hard drive light was in an always on mode.
So, I powered down and rebooted.
When it came back up, LILO loaded ok and it tried to boot my usual linux
kernel.
I downloaded one from Windows on my other drive and ran it. e2fsck on
each partition returns the same thing. Even the fsck -b 8193 didn't
work and complained about the magic block not being the same or
something like that.
e2fsck specifically said:
Attempt to read block from filesystem
fsck may not return what you really want to know. Best advice is
to go to the manufacturers website and download their disk
utility. With that you can do a full scan on the disk and find
out what bad sectors there are and/or if the drive is worth
saving by doing a low format.
--- Rob Hudson
Mr O,
I think you'll be able to help me as to where to go next...
The drive serial number is: IC35L040AVER07-0, which happens to be one of
those 40 GB IBM 60 GXP drives that everyone eventually has the very same
problems with... eventual bad sectors and lost data.
I purchased the drive
Thus the older Deskstar drives have earned themselves the name
of 'Deathstar' drives. Yours is still under 3 year warranty BUT
Hitachi is taking control of most of IBM's drive assets and
it'll take some time to get your drive taken care of. No more
advanced shipment from IBM. You're looking at
Do you have your data on an alternate partition? If only your root
partition is bad (or over bad sectors) you'll probably be able to mount
the other partitions to get the data without trying something like
ddrescue.
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:18:18PM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote:
Mr O,
I think
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