On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Kacper Kopczyński wrote: > Hi, > > My problem is really strange - I can't access my hard drive from linux, > but it works from windows without problems. It has some bad blocks.
it has a lot of bad blocks and a fucked up firmware it seems. No way it is working 'without problems'. > > > Here is dmesg: http://capsel.inten.pl/disk/dmesg > > cat /dev/sda gives no output, fdisk fails with "unable to > read /dev/sda". smartctl does not report model or serial, there is no > error log... hdparm shows "Invalid exchange" or > "Inappropriate ioctl for device", all commands failed. > > What else can I do? maybe ask kernel devs if there is a way to access the drive even with a capacity of 0 to copy everything from it before you stuff it in the garbage can?
