I seem to have a failing STB HD, a "refurb" Samsung HD155UI relabeled as Seagate ST1500DL004 Barracuda Green, bought 11 months ago. Log from latest rsync retry: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Hardware/Disk/rsync0211d.txt I didn't know in advance of any problem, but started out making a backup to freshly formatted and partitioned newer HD. Yesterday I mistakenly made the target partition too small and it filled up before completing. In that process only one file, the smallest of the three now failing, failed to copy. For it I had no log made. After repartitioning/reformatting I redid the rsync, and found 3 instead of 1 failed file, 7.7 hours later. http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Hardware/Disk/rsync0211b.txt I retried after a couple of hours idle time with no apparent difference. http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Hardware/Disk/rsync0211c.txt Latest try I did after shutdown and putting the failing HD in front of a fan long enough to bring it thoroughly down to room temperature. I now have it in a plastic baggie in the freezer. What should I try next? Another rsync right after removing HD from freezer? Ddrescue right after removing from freezer? Ddrescue after letting HD return to room temp? Anyone here familiar with ddrescue know what I should expect of it? Suggestions? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org