-----Original Message----- From: Alan E. Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 January 2007 11:50 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.
> I am still in limbo about this drive. I have gotten a disk scanning utility > from Gateway, and am now trying to get together a floppy to test it that way. > > > I have had another HDD issue this week, on a SATA drive. I may post > separately about that. I can see partitions from Ubuntu that I > cannot see from Gentoo. Etc. Back to the laptop. I hope for the best, and > suspect that somehow the disk was corrupted by software, > and if so I HOPE it can be recovered. Otherwise, I guess I can run a live > cd and save files to a usb flash drive! I haven't heard any > strange noises, but the freezer trick would certainly be a last resort. Sounds like some sort of driver issue then surely? Or a kernel config issue. I can't say more than that about it I'm afraid - I'm not entirely sure. David Note: These views are my own, advice is provided with no guarantee of success. I do not represent anyone else in any emails I send to this list.
