> I'm encouraged by the possibility of turning off the DMA. I really don't
> think the drive has gone bad as much as it just needs reformating. The
> second partition on it appears to be fine. Would this be better done from
> the repair mode or a live distro CD? I'll google DMA tonight and see what
> I can come up with. Do you know off hand of a good place for more
> information on this?
Nancy,
hdparm -d0 /dev/hdb will turn off DMA for drive hdb
The status = 0x51 messages usually indicate bad block on the drive.
If you cannot mount the drive but have space elsewhere try using dd_rescue
to copy the entire partition to a file, mount the file as a disk ( -o loop
option ) and see what can be recovered.
dd_rescue is quite good at recovering data from bad drives.
You can download a copy from http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/
peter
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Peter Skensved Email : peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dept. of Physics,
Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario,
Canada
