Re: Useless (broken?) IDE HD
Let the drive sit, for a few days, maybe a week and write down all you
want to recover off of it ..
(hard to believe but it works!)
then power it up, and see if it works, one of my servers suffered a root
drive failure(after 3 years! on a 720MB ide drive..) the system ran
despite the hdd failure(no new processes would spawn) for about 2 weeks
then it went dead. it sat there powered down for another 2 weeks, and we
powered it up and BANG it booted. i then powered it off again to change
drives, and then i needed something off of it and tried to power it up
agian and it was a no go.
write down what you want off that drive so you can copy it as quickly as
you can, i reccomend putting that drive on a second controler of another
system so it doesnt have to go through the pains of booting a kernel and
loading services. or boot off a rescue disk. copy everything you need as
fast as you can ..and hopefully you get it. don't try to copy the whole
disk it would probably put too mcuh stress on the drive and it would die
again.
of course this may not work, but there is a good chance it will, let the
drive rest some first though
nate
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
gzahn >Hi there,
gzahn >
gzahn > I know it's somehow OT, but you were the only guys I thought could
gzahn >give me some ideas...
gzahn >
gzahn > well... at home I've got a VA34324A Samsung HD (IDE, 4.3Gb) that
gzahn >decided to stop working this weekend. As I'm completely out of money for
gzahn >at least 2 months and short of backups for a big chunk of the data it
gzahn >contains, I'd like to see if there's any way to put it back to service,
gzahn >even if just for a short time. Here's what happens now that it's
gzahn >installed as 2nd master in my work PC:
gzahn >
gzahn >1) When I turn on the computer, BIOS recognizes OK it and it passes all
gzahn >tests fine;
gzahn >
gzahn >2) Linux boots, kernel recognizes hdc: SAMSUNG VA34324A, 4124MB w/478kB
gzahn >Cache, CHS=14896/9/63, UDMA (i.e.: fine);
gzahn >
gzahn >3) fdisk sees all four partitions OK and warns of no problems;
gzahn >
gzahn >4) When I try to mount any of the partitions, I get a lot of equal
gzahn >messages:
gzahn >
gzahn >hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error
gzahn >}
gzahn >hdc: read_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
gzahn >ide1: reset: success
gzahn >
gzahn >The FAT32 partition mount in the end, still gives me more error messages
gzahn >but I can at least browse through it and retrieve some files) but the
gzahn >ext2 won't mount (ext2 filesystem panic, of course, because of the read
gzahn >errors).
gzahn >
gzahn >When I boot Win98 (still w/ the broken HD as 2nd master), win98's fdisk
gzahn >won't even notice there's a 2nd HD and Partition Resizer win warn of an
gzahn >error (something like ¨partition 1 out of boundaries¨) and won't
gzahn >recognize anything (not even the 1st HD)...
gzahn >
gzahn >Now, is there any chance that it's not a hardware fault? If so, how
gzahn >could I try to make it work? I'm accepting mostly every possible idea,
gzahn >no matter how risky or absurd it may seem, as the worst that could
gzahn >happen as losing the HD I can't use now!
gzahn >
gzahn >TIA,
gzahn >
gzahn > Guilherme Zahn
gzahn >
gzahn >PS: Please c/c myself on the replies, OK? Due to the heavy traffic on
gzahn >the list I had to sign it through another e-mail address, and it's been
gzahn >hard to check it lately!
gzahn >
gzahn >
gzahn >--
gzahn >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null
gzahn >
----------------------------------------[mailto:aphro@aphroland.org ]--
Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/
Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/
Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/
Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/
Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/
-----------------------------------------[mailto:aphro@netquest.net ]--
7:23am up 122 days, 19:13, 2 users, load average: 0.42, 0.33, 0.30
Reply to: