RE: hard disk blues

From: Thomison, Lee <ThomisonL@ci.anchorage.ak.us>
Date: Fri Apr 22 2005 - 14:07:55 AKDT

Oh man I hates to say this, but I think you are out of luck. Those are
messages I'm very familiar with, and I've found that on the rare
occasion I have been able to fix them, they don't stay fixed. =20

I have never been able to salvage the data.

So I just get a new one and save my time and sanity.

If someone has found otherwise, please post otherwise 8).

But, if you want....fdisk /mbr 15, 20, 30 times, until either it starts
working or you are ready for the hammer.

Good luck. I feel your pain. New hard drives are cheap. =20

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Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:58:19 -0800
From: Enkidu <enkidu@bastardsonofgod.com>
Subject: Hard Disk Blues

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I was trying to add a new hard disk to my system yesterday and lost
power in the middle of mke2fs (oh, the humanity...). After cursing my
foul luck and reconnecting my UPS, I rebooted to discover that fdisk
could not read the drive, the partition table seem to be missing. Dmesg
is indicating a hardware error, but the previous partition (ntfs) was
mounted without problems. Using dd, I am able to read the drive without
errors, the data that was on there is intact and the hardware seems to
be functioning. However, I am unable to write to the drive. I am
wondering how to proceed from here. Is there a low-level format utility
that I might be able to use to start fresh for fdisk? Can I just charge
ahead with mke2fs -m 0 despite the lack of a partition table?

Here is the error from dmesg:

hdb: task_in_intr: status=3D0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
Error }
hdb: task_in_intr: error=3D0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=3D0,
sector=3D0
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 0

Any suggestions, advice, blessings, or magic potions would be greatly
appreciated as I struggle to save my data from myself.

Art Brown

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