Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965361AbXATUJ3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:09:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965365AbXATUJ3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:09:29 -0500 Received: from [82.193.184.243] ([82.193.184.243]:58916 "EHLO aurora.bayour.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965361AbXATUJ2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:09:28 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 675 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:09:27 EST To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Weird harddisk behaviour X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 92 93 0E 06 94 D6 22 98 1F 0B 5B FE 33 A1 0B X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x788CD1A9 X-URL: http://www.bayour.com/ References: <87bqkzp0et.fsf@pumba.bayour.com> <20070116141959.GC476@deepthought> <87y7o2hsmm.fsf@pumba.bayour.com> <20070118001838.GA340@deepthought> From: Turbo Fredriksson Organization: Bah! X-Yow: Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but Message-Id: Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:58:18 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2492 Lines: 55 when there is no longer anything to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:58:17 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20070118001838.GA340@deepthought> (Ken Moffat's message of "Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:18:38 +0000") Message-ID: <87odotpj1i.fsf@pumba.bayour.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/20.7 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Quoting Ken Moffat : > So, you were using a valid tool, but what you put in your original > mail shows garbage - something like apple_partition_ma[mamama... That's what fdisk showed me. I don't have a true UTF-8 system, so when cutting-and-pasing between the shell and mail app, it might have been distorted. But the output WAS weird! > But if it isn't, somehow the data on the disk (or the data being > read from it) is corrupt. So how come it got corrupt? I did a 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb' (and waited for the whole disk to be zeroed - took HOURS! :). Then partitioned the disk and cut-and-pasted the output into the mail... EVERY time I check the partition table (using mac-fdisk and not cfdisk), that destorted output is shown. It's not distorted/corrupt if I use cfdisk though... Since I don't exactly know how to do all this with the tools in Linux, I took the disk to my girlfriends WinXP and is currently using 'OnTrack EasyRecorvery Professional - ERP' to do scanns and tests of the disk. I tried parition and format it there to, but the format failed (no reason why). I'm currently running the extended S.M.A.R.T. test. And there where other tests I could do to... I'll let you know. One weird thing though... ERP only found it as a 137Mb disk! It's supposed to be a 400Gb... -- Ft. Bragg ammonium genetic Ortega Nazi Uzi FSF Cocaine North Korea Cuba Delta Force Qaddafi Treasury kibo Marxist [See http://www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/index.html for more about this] [Or http://www.europarl.eu.int/tempcom/echelon/pdf/rapport_echelon_en.pdf] If neither of these works, try http://www.aclu.org and search for echelon. Note. This is a real, not fiction. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/09/06/eu_releases_echelon_spying_report/ http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/23989res20060131.html#echelon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/