-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-06-29 at 20:34 -0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
Yep. Well, actually you did that, in a way... you were trying to copy the data elsewere and it failed.
Yeah. I think in the end the drive just overheated.
I think modern drives run hotter, it's becoming an issue.
It could be the firmware trying to relocate bad sectors, going back and forth between two remote disk tracks, and that sounds like "clicks". Who knows!
Very possible. It just seems to be cycling that now. I'll probably hit the drive with a bulk eraser I've got somewhere in the basement before disposing of it. In the end, it was about 126 GB of space that was unreadable before it took the final crash.
Last time I had a disk go bad, with some bad sectors, I was able to recover an image of the disks partitions with dd; only one was really affected, and I had to do it with dd_rescue instead. On each bad sector it seemed as it tried to read, failed, maybe reset, then tried again. I think it tried 10 or 20 times for each sector, each attempt some seconds, and there were more than a few sectors bad. I left it running for half a day or more, but at the end I got an image I could run reiserfsck on it and recover some of the data. And each attempt it did some clicks. The rest of the disk had no problems at all, just some part of the surface gone bad. If the head or the electronics had been affected, nothing could have been recovered, I suppose. And the partitioning of the disk limited the damage to one partition, making the recovery of the rest very easy.
You can run smart tests on it and learn something.
Yeah, that at least should help prevent another failure.
Two drives... double the failure rate, at least :-(
Yeah, or at least twice the opportunity for a failure. New drive is a single drive, so hopefully that won't be an issue on it. A little concerned at how hot it seems to run, though.
Some enclosures are cooler than others. I like ones from "cooler master" named "xcraftlite". They have both esata and usb plugs, so that testing is easier connecting to the sata interface (which I still have to buy). I heard of others with a little fan. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFIaAa3tTMYHG2NR9URAmSSAJwPNX46/gumxKKw7xWbFjYFD3ENJgCY/uRY dOgD08Qg5/P8zKd/45xGjg== =XiyY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org