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Hi Maxwell,<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 22:20 -0600, Maxwell Spangler wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I have a failed/failing SATA disk over here. Can you recommend any
tools I can run on it to test it in depth and or try to recover data?
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<pre wrap="">Whoops! That was supposed to be a private message to Master Shawn
because I know he's got hard drive kung fu over there.
I'm going to run SeaTools on it now just to confirm it's got problems.
Then I'm going to try to get to the data, but only for a little bit.
I just wish I could do a more exploring on the drive to figure out what
the problem is. This is less than 90 days old and just went kaput from
either a little bump or a bad power connection..
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SeaTools repaired two bad sectors and now my system is bootable again
with a loss of what, 512 bytes?
Let this be a reminder to me, and you, to stop this weekend and backup
your data. You never know when two little sectors could bring your
whole system down.
Thanks, Seagate. Great way to start the weekend!
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Could you please post the results of "smartctl -a /dev/hdX" for your
hard drive? I am interested to see the SMART information and extended
attributes (with counters) to see what this drive failure might "look"
like on the SMART output.<br>
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I am working on a large scale disk testing and failure analysis
project. (Not as large scale as google's, and specific to our usage,
but they are similar in concept.) Also I do SMART monitoring for my
own hard drives and in fact it was the SMART hard drives that informed
me that the internal fans had failed in one of my cases because the
drives were 60C (way overheated) and claiming they were about to fail.<br>
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Thanks a lot,<br>
Jim<br>
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