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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:
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Stroller
strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
On 10 Oct 2010, at 17:21, Fatih Tümen wrote:
There problem is I have two more partition with about 80GB of data.
If you need to get data off this disk then we can advise (but search the
archives for GNU
On 11 Oct 2010, at 12:51, Fatih Tümen wrote:
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P.S. Would you recommend against 7200rpm usb 2.5 disks?
I'm aware of no reason to do so.
Typically usb 2.5 disks can be powered off the USB cable, which is much more
portable than the PSU required by external USB 3.5 drives.
I would guess
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Stroller
strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
On 11 Oct 2010, at 12:51, Fatih Tümen wrote:
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P.S. Would you recommend against 7200rpm usb 2.5 disks?
I'm aware of no reason to do so.
Typically usb 2.5 disks can be powered off the USB cable, which is much
On 10 Oct 2010, at 04:58, Fatih Tümen wrote:
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I'm not using the dreaded 'hardware' word yet, though I'm suspicious.
If you heard the noise coming from the drive when plugged in you be
more than suspicious I think.
So what's the problem? Bin or warranty the drive - you already told us,
On Sunday 10 October 2010 04:58:04 Fatih Tümen wrote:
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:15 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
Will fdisk read and recognize the partition table on the USB disk? If
fdisk results in disk read errors then I'd begin to think more about
'hardware' :(
No Unable to read
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Stroller
strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
On 10 Oct 2010, at 04:58, Fatih Tümen wrote:
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I'm not using the dreaded 'hardware' word yet, though I'm suspicious.
If you heard the noise coming from the drive when plugged in you be
more than suspicious I
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday 10 October 2010 04:58:04 Fatih Tümen wrote:
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:15 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
Will fdisk read and recognize the partition table on the USB disk? If
fdisk results in disk read errors
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
On 10 Oct 2010, at 17:21, Fatih Tümen wrote:
There problem is I have two more partition with about 80GB of data.
If you need to get data off this disk then we can advise (but search the
archives for GNU dd_rescue, or just read its manual) but apart from that
there's nothing we can
On 10 Oct 2010, at 17:28, Fatih Tümen wrote:
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The noise you're describing is indicative of mechanical failure.
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. Would
you call it a coincidence of running eix
2010/10/9 Fatih Tümen fthtmn+gen...@gmail.com:
I am not sure what may have caused the issue but there are two things
I suspect that may have caused this.
1. I usually forget the device is mounted and sda1 partition swappedon
while suspending/sleeping the system. I run fsck.ext3 on the
On 10/09/2010 12:36 PM, Fatih Tümen wrote:
2. I accidentally ran grub-install /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda
If you still actually have an 'hda' then you should start using the new
disk drivers in the kernel CONFIG_ATA section rather than the older
and deprecated CONFIG_IDE section.
That will
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:15 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/09/2010 12:36 PM, Fatih Tümen wrote:
2. I accidentally ran grub-install /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda
If you still actually have an 'hda' then you should start using the new
disk drivers in the kernel CONFIG_ATA section
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