On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Owen Berry wrote:
The latest on this is that I managed to boot Knoppix running the bad drive
on a PCI IDE controller. The BIOS detects the drive, and so does Knoppix,
but complains bitterly about it.
Here are some messages from dmesg:
hde: max request size: 64KiB
hde: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63
hde: cache flushes not supported
I think it's dead. Possible next step is to replace the
electronics board although I've not done such a thing
myself.
I tried some other tools like SalvageNTFS, but they all failed with IO
errors, and there were lots of Buffer I/O errors in dmesg. Interestingly
enough, the clicking noises stopped once I was in Knoppix.
possibly because you're not accessing it.
So, any suggestions?
did you put it in the freezer? don't do anything that writes
to it, like booting from it.
Joe
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