Re: [gentoo-user] OT: hard disk access and recovery impossible under linux ?

["Kacper Kopczyński" <capsel@matrix.inten.pl>]

Dnia 2010-07-31, o godz. 16:15:51
Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> napisał(a):

> On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Kacper Kopczyński wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > My problem is really strange - I can't access my hard drive from
> > linux, but it works from windows without problems. It has some bad
> > blocks.
> 
> it has a lot of bad blocks and a fucked up firmware it seems. No way
> it is working 'without problems'.
> 

Well total space taken by bad blocks according to chkdsk is less than
1MB, windows is still able to access all data. Linux is only able to
see partition table "for a while" - as you can see in dmesg.

If firmware is broken then how it is possible that windows is able to
use this disk?

> > 
> > 
> > Here is dmesg: http://capsel.inten.pl/disk/dmesg
> > 
> > cat /dev/sda gives no output, fdisk fails with "unable to
> > read /dev/sda". smartctl does not report model or serial, there is
> > no error log... hdparm shows "Invalid exchange" or
> > "Inappropriate ioctl for device", all commands failed.
> > 
> > What else can I do?
> 
> maybe ask kernel devs if there is a way to access the drive even with
> a capacity of 0 to copy everything from it before you stuff it in the
> garbage can?
> 

Well.. I've backed up data from it already.

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Kacper Kopczyński