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On Wed, Jan 01 2014, Dale wrote: |
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> gottlieb@×××.edu wrote: |
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>> On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote: |
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>>> On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote: |
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>>>> My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for |
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>>>> a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. |
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>>> Maybe I'm weird or something but I've never once had a hard drive fail |
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>>> gradually/gracefully. They all just stop working, usually when I power |
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>>> the machine on for the first time in the morning. |
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>>> What warning is the disk giving you of early failure? |
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>> First it wouldn't mount in during startup. |
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>> Then I tried switching the USB ports on the desktop and rebooted. |
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>> It mounted but fsck took forever with pauses. |
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>> Then I shut down the system and unplugged the drive. |
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>> allan |
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> Can you check it with smartmontools? I guess if it can't be mounted |
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> tho, it doesn't really matter about the rest. That sort of makes it |
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> hard to rescue the data on it. |
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> Dale |
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The important data on the disk is also on another computer (or two). I |
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do want to buy the replacement disk to again have redundancy. |
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allan |
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