Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/08/08 16:19, KS wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a friend's G4(PPC) which seems to have a dying disk. He had run > > Linux or OSX?
OS X Tiger on the G4(PPC) >> the Apple disk utility and it reported and error with the IDE disk. The >> machine just halts sometimes, with the disk trying to read something and >> the only way to shut down the machine was the power button. >> >> I tried doing an rsync to a remote directory and it made the hard disk >> busy after sending about 350MB (total home data is around 6GB). I have > > Busy? Isn't it *supposed* to be busily sending 6GB of data across the > wire? > > Or does "busy" mean something else? I agree 6GB will take time to transfer, but there was no change in the size of the directory where I was dumping. Plus the activity monitor on the G4 was not showing any network transfer. I did wait for about half an hour though. >> shut down the machine and trying to list various options of salvaging >> the data from the HDD. I was reading up on dd_rescue (had tried it on a >> couple of CDs earlier), foremost, and Sleuthkit. Does anyone have any >> recommendations on how to proceed in this case? Any live CD(PPC) which >> will be more helpful than the systemrescueCD (0.2.0 PPC)? > > What happens when you fsck it? > Didn't try that yet. Will do that tomorrow morning. Thanks, /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
