Re: Hard Disk Blues

From: Darren Coolidge <dcoolidge@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Apr 22 2005 - 14:15:42 AKDT

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On 4/22/05, Enkidu <enkidu@bastardsonofgod.com> wrote:
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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 er=
ror,
> 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 inta=
ct and
> the hardware seems to be functioning. However, I am unable to write to th=
e
> drive. I am wondering how to proceed from here. Is there a low-level form=
at
> 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?
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> Here is the error from dmesg:
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> hdb: task_in_intr: status=3D0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Er=
ror }
> hdb: task_in_intr: error=3D0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=3D0, sect=
or=3D0
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 0
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> Any suggestions, advice, blessings, or magic potions would be greatly
> appreciated as I struggle to save my data from myself.
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> Art Brown
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> There is in certain living souls
> A quality of loneliness unspeakable,
> So great it must be shared
> As company is shared by lesser beings.
> Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this
> That in immensity
> There is one lonelier than you.
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