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It would be far better to use Spinrite (like I mentioned before) - to allow |
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a really low level access to the drive. While Spinrite is running the HDD |
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will not be able to automatically relocate sectors. I've been blown away |
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how effective this piece of software is - even when run with (apparently) |
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very knackered Maxtor drives!! It was like they were brought back from the |
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dead... |
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On 25 January 2015 at 13:41, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 24 Jan 2015 18:18:36 Dale wrote: |
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> > Since I already replaced this drive, nothing lost. We did learn |
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> > something tho. Just because it claims to have fixed itself doesn't mean |
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> > it will be a long term solution. ;-) |
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> > Dale |
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> > :-) :-) |
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> Your repeated dd action probably relocated some bad blocks. |
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> I would also run a long test overnight to see where and how it fails. I |
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> recently had a drive which went sideways on me. Running dd was successful |
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> in |
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> relocating some problematic sectors. However, repeating the smart tests |
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> revealed that more and more sectors were going bad. I recall a warning |
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> that a |
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> catastrophic drive failure was imminent, when reading the output of |
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> 'smartctl |
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> -a'. |
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> Instead of dd'ing the whole drive, just dd the suspect sector and repeat |
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> the |
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> smart tests to see how things move around. I concur with other posters |
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> that |
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> this drive should only be used for experimentation, rather than production |
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> or |
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> back ups. |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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All the best, |
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Robert |
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