Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:15:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:15:11 -0400 Received: from niwot.scd.ucar.edu ([128.117.8.223]:22478 "EHLO niwot.scd.ucar.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:15:10 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:19:44 -0600 From: Craig Ruff To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ide drive dying? Message-ID: <20020906101944.A5506@bells.scd.ucar.edu> References:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from root@chaos.analogic.com on Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 11:44:52AM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1062 Lines: 22 On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 11:44:52AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > IBM DeathStar 75gxp. > > Well put. Also, don't turn off this drive --ever. If possible, back-up > to something on a network, not to anything on the IDE bus. I had one of these drives fail recently with the dread "clicking of death" sounds (while it was retrying reads). What I discovered, while backing up the disk, is that continuing sequential reads past the bad sectors without and intervening operation would eventually cause the drive to get into a messed up state where it erroneously reported the following good sectors as bad. My strategy to recover the good data was to read sequentially until I got an error, then explicitly seek to the next good sector and continue from there. This enabled me to copy the good data. - 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/