RE: hard disk blues

Actualy, there is something that might work. Try
formatting it in a MAC. Or a Sun, or Alpha etc. I used
to work with a guy who was a Mac person. He would brag
of saving drives that a PC would not format by
formatting them in a MAC, then in a PC again. Might
not work in a USB external case, or on a newer one,
but I don't know that. He did it on a little older(but
not much) one like a first generation G4 I think, OS8
or 9. You will lose any data, but it sounds as though
you already have.

Let me know if it works. I'm also curious as that's
the kind of thing I get paid to do, when I can find
work.

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Subject: RE: hard disk blues
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:07:55 -0800
From: "Thomison, Lee"

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
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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Received on Sun Apr 24 23:30:42 2005