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On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Kacper Kopczyński wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> My problem is really strange - I can't access my hard drive from linux, |
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> but it works from windows without problems. It has some bad blocks. |
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it has a lot of bad blocks and a fucked up firmware it seems. No way it is |
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working 'without problems'. |
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> Here is dmesg: http://capsel.inten.pl/disk/dmesg |
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> cat /dev/sda gives no output, fdisk fails with "unable to |
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> read /dev/sda". smartctl does not report model or serial, there is no |
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> error log... hdparm shows "Invalid exchange" or |
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> "Inappropriate ioctl for device", all commands failed. |
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> What else can I do? |
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maybe ask kernel devs if there is a way to access the drive even with a |
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capacity of 0 to copy everything from it before you stuff it in the garbage |
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can? |
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