On Tuesday 24 June 2008 06:02:19 pm Jim Henderson wrote:
Got a drive that's starting to show its age (sadly, at only about 2 years old!). It's a Maxtor OneTouch drive, which actually contains 2 500 GB drives and presents via USB as a single storage device.
I read the rest of the posts and it seems that there is some hope to rescue your files. I got recently similar episode. I have drive that "died" few years ago, but after limiting transfer rate and recovering some sectors with Maxtor's disk utility it was running fine until I put it in openSUSE 10.3 system as a spare and put bunch of iso files on it that should be used by VirtualBox. All of the sudden drive that was working for years tried to die again. The reason was that 10.3 that was asking too much from old drive and long data transfer overheated electronics, so it started to write garbage on a disk. I didn't found the way to tell 10.3 to slow down and changing BIOS settings (disable UDMA) wasn't regarded. So I tried to rescue files and move them back to original drive. This made situation worse. Drive started clicking and disappeared from the system with majority of files on it. The cure: Drive was moved in old computer, Maxtor utility run tests and found some sectors bad. After that I was able to mount drive in openSUSE 10.2 and pull the rest of files. They were all in lost+found. Those isos that I used after didn't show signs of malfunction. The drive is now in old computer with openSUSE 10.2, still running in it's slow pace. HTH -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org