Re: failing usb drive
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On 03/01/08 13:00, Andrew Henry wrote:
> I have a WD Mybook 320GB usb/firewire drive which is about 1 yr old.
> Warranty is 2 years I think. It is fully encrypted with dmcrypt &
> Luks. I power it up once a day and it stays on for about 12 hours (as a
> home server) and the manual recommends *not* turning it on more than
> once a day.
>
> Now it "failed" as in I ssh's to my home server and did ls -l on one of
> the folders and several files came up red with question marks for the
> owner group and file size.
>
> I turned the server off and rebooted, and Luks failed to open the drive
> and offered to drop me into a recovery terminal mode to fix the problem.
>
> I didn't know what to do so I rebooted again and it mounted the drive as
> expected. It has been "ok" for 2 days now.
>
> I have run smartctl -Hc /dev/sda and done an fsck -f /dev/sda and they
> report no issues. How else can I tell if my drive is failing??
If this is important data, don't risk it! Go buy another external
drive (and save some coin by getting a generic enclosure and OEM
disk from Newegg).
Then after moving the data to the new drive, decide what you want to do.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"The kniiife... the kniiife... The life of the wife is ended by the
knife."
Stewie Griffin & Eliza Pinchley
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