Re: hard drive repair problem

2006-06-09 Thread Marty Landman
At 09:09 PM 6/8/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Marty Landman wrote: 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0032

Re: hard drive repair problem

2006-06-09 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:09:52PM -0400, Marty Landman wrote: > > >At 01:20 PM 6/5/2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > >>Modern hard drives have a built-in self-diagnosis system called SMART. > >>The corresponding Debian package is called "smartmontools". You can > >>install this package (or boot f

Re: hard drive repair problem

2006-06-08 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Marty Landman wrote: 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0032 253 253 000Old_age Always 51 That's a bit on the warm side for a hard drive.. can you improve your cooling when you replace this drive? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: hard drive repair problem

2006-06-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 08 Jun 2006, Marty Landman wrote: > The following's what I get for current status so I'm wondering if > this turned out to be a software issue after all and I ought to > cancel my RMA, or if the HD's likely to act up again. I have HDs that will (after a write) behave normally for one wee

Re: hard drive repair problem

2006-06-08 Thread Marty Landman
At 01:20 PM 6/5/2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: Modern hard drives have a built-in self-diagnosis system called SMART. The corresponding Debian package is called "smartmontools". You can install this package (or boot from a suitable live CD) and run Well I got an RMA from the vendor for my hdb1

Re: hard drive repair problem

2006-06-06 Thread Marty Landman
Here's what I got from TestDisk, can anyone help me interpret and go on from here? TestDisk 5.5, Data Recovery Utility, November 2004 Christophe GRENIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cgsecurity.org Disk /dev/hdb - CHS 30515 255 63 - 239366 MB Partition StartEndSi

Re: hard drive repair problem

2006-06-06 Thread Marty Landman
At 01:20 PM 6/5/2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: Modern hard drives have a built-in self-diagnosis system called SMART. The corresponding Debian package is called "smartmontools". You can install this package (or boot from a suitable live CD) and run smartctl -a /dev/hdb | less to retrieve the stor

Re: hard drive repair problem

2006-06-05 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 03:26:36PM -0400, Marty Landman wrote: > At 12:54 PM 6/5/2006, Digby Tarvin wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:35:30PM -0400, Marty Landman wrote: > >> > >> Ok does this result indicate a hardware error then? > >> > >> penskefile:/home/marty# dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/null >

Re: hard drive repair problem

2006-06-05 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 07:20:04PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Modern hard drives have a built-in self-diagnosis system called SMART. > The corresponding Debian package is called "smartmontools". You can > install this package (or boot from a suitable live CD) and run > > smartctl -a /dev/hd

Re: hard drive repair problem

2006-06-05 Thread Marty Landman
At 12:54 PM 6/5/2006, Digby Tarvin wrote: On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:35:30PM -0400, Marty Landman wrote: > > Ok does this result indicate a hardware error then? > > penskefile:/home/marty# dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/null > dd: reading `/dev/hdb1': Input/output error > 40+0 records in > 40+0 records

Re: hard drive repair problem

2006-06-05 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:35:30PM -0400, Marty Landman wrote: > At 11:40 AM 6/5/2006, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > >Sounds more like a hardware fault than a filesystem corruption to me. > > I was afraid of that. > > >Have you checked to see if anything is being logged by the driver > >(eg by checkin

Re: hard drive repair problem

2006-06-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:35:30 -0400, Marty Landman wrote: > At 11:40 AM 6/5/2006, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > >Sounds more like a hardware fault than a filesystem corruption to me. > > I was afraid of that. > > >Have you checked to see if anything is being logged by the driver > >(eg by checking

Re: hard drive repair problem

2006-06-05 Thread Marty Landman
At 11:40 AM 6/5/2006, Digby Tarvin wrote: Sounds more like a hardware fault than a filesystem corruption to me. I was afraid of that. Have you checked to see if anything is being logged by the driver (eg by checking the output of 'dmesg')? Yes, dmesg shows the same thing that fsck does i.

Re: hard drive repair problem

2006-06-05 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 10:31:49AM -0400, Marty Landman wrote: > Hi, > > I must've had a power outage and though my system rebooted itself > there now seems to be a problem with a 250GB hd which I can't seem to > fix. Am pretty new to this - the fsck and dfisk outputs are below. > There is lots

hard drive repair problem

2006-06-05 Thread Marty Landman
Hi, I must've had a power outage and though my system rebooted itself there now seems to be a problem with a 250GB hd which I can't seem to fix. Am pretty new to this - the fsck and dfisk outputs are below. There is lots of data on this drive, can I get it back? Thanks in advance, Marty pe