On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 01:18:49PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:53:56 +0800
> csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > last ages. I've never had the chance to test this theory though,
> > since I upgrade to a higher-capacity drive in as little as two
> > years.
>
> I'm still
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> Does the remapping reduce the size and/or reported size of the disk?
No. It has a (very) limited number of hidden spare sectors for that.
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Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
drive itself "goes around" the bad spots, using sector remapping.
ONLY when you write to a bad sector, OR a SMART offline/online surface scan
test hits the bad sector, whichever happens first. Before that, ma
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > drive itself "goes around" the bad spots, using sector remapping.
>
> ONLY when you write to a bad sector, OR a SMART offline/online surface scan
> test hits the bad sector, whichever happens fir
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
> drive itself "goes around" the bad spots, using sector remapping.
ONLY when you write to a bad sector, OR a SMART offline/online surface scan
test hits the bad sector, whichever happens first. Before that, many drives
will give you an ECC error back when
csj wrote:
On 21. September 2005 at 8:32AM -0400,
Mitchell Laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
I try not to use maxtor - i have switched to western digital
after too many crashes.
I buy only Maxtor drives. I bought one bad Maxtor drive that
started spouting read errors the first time I t
"csj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On 21. September 2005 at 8:32AM -0400,
> Mitchell Laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I try not to use maxtor - i have switched to western digital
> > after too many crashes.
>
> I buy only Maxtor drives. I bought one
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:53:56 +0800
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> last ages. I've never had the chance to test this theory though,
> since I upgrade to a higher-capacity drive in as little as two
> years.
I'm still using a 1.6 gig drive (although sparingly) as hda - got it
back in 1996. I can
On 21. September 2005 at 8:32AM -0400,
Mitchell Laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> I try not to use maxtor - i have switched to western digital
> after too many crashes.
I buy only Maxtor drives. I bought one bad Maxtor drive that
started spouting read errors the first time I tried to forma
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 16:06 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:32:21AM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> > i use both
> >
> > dd_rescue and dd_rescue_help (find them via google). dd_rescue help helps
> > skip all over the disk which is amazing.
> >
> > I try not to use ma
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:32:21AM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> i use both
>
> dd_rescue and dd_rescue_help (find them via google). dd_rescue help helps
> skip all over the disk which is amazing.
>
> I try not to use maxtor - i have switched to western digital after too many
> crashes.
After
I'd just like to thank you all for your help and opinions in solving my problem.
Regards,
Boris.
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> How old was it when it died?
>
> I've been using Maxtors since 1992 (250MB), and never had a problem.
>
> But, my current 120GB Maxtor is starting to get a bit noisy, so
> a new one is on the way from New Egg.
It was probably older than a year. I had bought it
because my Hitachi/IBM had fail
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 03:30 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > Apply for a job with a TLA, they have the
> > equipment to do this.
>
> You must be inferring a secret government agency, because I work
> for a company that has a TLA, and they don't have any such equipment.
Must be another Three
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 07:44 -0700, A.Melon wrote:
> > my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a
> > backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the
> > information that can be read? One thing might be kind of a problem,
> > however,
> > since the hd is
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 13:50 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:46:33AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 11:10 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
[snip]
> > > P.S. I'm off to buy a new hd. Any particular brands I should keep away
> > > from?
> >
> > Infinite
Borislav Petkov wrote:
Hi there,
my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a
backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the
information that can be read? One thing might be kind of a problem, however,
since the hd is damaged at its very beginning and
Mike McCarty wrote:
Borislav Petkov wrote:
[snip]
P.S. I'm off to buy a new hd. Any particular brands I should keep away
from?
Rather than say something negative, I'll say something positive:
Seagate and Western Digital are chammpion drives in my estimation.
I would agree minus Weste
> my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a
> backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the
> information that can be read? One thing might be kind of a problem, however,
> since the hd is damaged at its very beginning and attempting to mount it
> gi
seagate drives now all have 5 year warranties.
b.
Walter Hoolwerf wrote:
On 2005-09-21 14:00:25 +0200, Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:46:33AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 11:10 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
Hi there,
my hd died thi
On 2005-09-21 14:00:25 +0200, Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:46:33AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 11:10 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
Hi there,
my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a
backup but is there a w
Borislav Petkov wrote:
[snip]
P.S. I'm off to buy a new hd. Any particular brands I should keep away
from?
Rather than say something negative, I'll say something positive:
Seagate and Western Digital are chammpion drives in my estimation.
Mike
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On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a
> > > backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the
> > > information that can be read?
that'd depnd on the problem of what *-you-* mean by "died" vs what's
i use both
dd_rescue and dd_rescue_help (find them via google). dd_rescue help helps
skip all over the disk which is amazing.
I try not to use maxtor - i have switched to western digital after too many
crashes.
Mitchell
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On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:46:33AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 11:10 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a
> > backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the
> > information
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 11:44:31AM +0200, Philipp Pagel wrote:
> Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a
> > backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the
> > information that can be read? One thing might
Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a
> backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the
> information that can be read? One thing might be kind of a problem, however,
> since the hd is damaged at its very
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 11:10 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a
> backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the
> information that can be read? One thing might be kind of a problem, however,
> sinc
Hi there,
my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a
backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the
information that can be read? One thing might be kind of a problem, however,
since the hd is damaged at its very beginning and attempting to mount it g
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