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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 02:40:41
Message-Id: 53AB881A.3050100@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60% by David Haller
1 David Haller wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Dale wrote:
5 > Yeah. Oh, and I had a "clean" smart until a few days ago, luckily I
6 > alread had a WD Red (WD40EFRX) drive waiting when this attrib jumped
7 > from 0 to: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 087 087 036 Pre-fail Always
8 > 17688 Other Seagates (a few 1.5T drives) have also made me trouble,
9 > the 2T Samsung already relabeled and sold as a Seagate but with
10 > Samsung in the FW though is still ok. [..]
11
12 I was wondering about how that would be updated since a lot of that
13 stuff requires windoze.
14
15
16 >> I ordered a drive. It should be here tomorrow. In the meantime, I
17 >> shutdown and re-seated all the cables, power too. I got the test running
18 >> again but results is a few hours off yet. It did pass the short test
19 >> tho. I'm not sure that it means much.
20 > Good. Do not use dd, it WILL fail at the first error. Use gnu ddrescue
21 > or dd_rescue to grab an image. I used mc to copy via filesystem, eg.
22 > 'rsync -auxlPRAXSHD /foo/ /bar/' is fine too. Oh, and I hope you
23 > didn't buy a Seagate again ;)
24 >
25 > -dnh
26 >
27
28 I plan to rsync or cp the data over. The dd part will come into play
29 after I am sure I got everything off that I can get and am just erasing
30 the drive completely. I plan to dd the drive then run the tests again
31 just to see what it is doing. Heck, maybe it will reallocate that area
32 like it should be doing already, I guess.
33
34 Time will tell. I'll be having fun tomorrow tho. ;-)
35
36 Dale
37
38 :-) :-)

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