From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P4sj8-000603-Gy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:01:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8F58E0867; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:01:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C92E0867 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:01:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwc33 with SMTP id 33so2269962wwc.10 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:01:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Vg8omLLthkhciM/fw4sxsYXeGrA7t/LnZf+0ukYq4J0=; b=ReoRdCACEWd6SHgYhzG3TcUYwJVal5ocsdkbS7Viydosti2TYxr0M0QBF3EzZyP+3H 1OTPIZwK6Bl11cF5YccX0jHoQMBJZcVwokn3wG5c0O/yzaf1dUUe/Adfhw4va2QaGo06 I/hTDgvckpojRfl/YUStEGAIkUgvsxMs8WfAU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Jm8/7AJgQvueOzwlG1lVCQCKbCe0OfRS7wlZGXJ2WTsQedzl2WVfo4/y9nT2Uq78aF ssptAQeI1WgTXBX+sRga3bJQcJvmgfhwUQWMsHyCnmYaXdTXEux5ioqEEuV5qLE97qEk iQaxHnfItwyeFk0Pn7Va/xcTVibzSrQP2RFuY= Received: by 10.216.60.203 with SMTP id u53mr123776wec.36.1286704885684; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:01:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p52sm3526269weq.20.2010.10.10.03.01.24 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:01:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:01:09 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2392616.Ni3dvB7k4N"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010101101.23597.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 98eab96f-f3ce-4095-9a6d-fb3d9c8fc122 X-Archives-Hash: 2c3a2059aafed7b1fd7421300dd136a8 --nextPart2392616.Ni3dvB7k4N Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday 10 October 2010 04:58:04 Fatih T=FCmen wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:15 AM, walt wrote: > > Will fdisk read and recognize the partition table on the USB disk? If > > fdisk results in disk read errors then I'd begin to think more about > > 'hardware' :( >=20 > No "Unable to read /dev/sda" is what fdisk says. I never had a disk > (hardware) failure before. Is there no way to extract data from it? The noise you're describing is indicative of mechanical failure. Unless your PC can access the drive (dmesg will show what the kernel sees)= =20 then there is no easy way of getting the data out of it. I have heard of people opening the USB enclosure of external drives and=20 removing the drive, which they then installed in a laptop. However, these= =20 were cases where the USB controller was faulty, rather than the moving=20 elements of the drive itself. If you had access to a forensics lab you could even take the platters out o= f=20 the drive itself and read them on platter reader. On the other hand, if yo= u=20 only had ccache, distfiles and packages a resync with a new external drive= =20 will get you a working system again. Before you head for the shops you would at least want to try another USB ca= ble=20 as Walter suggested, just in case. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2392616.Ni3dvB7k4N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkyxjvIACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZwBQCdENwj0gVpRVaNSpS2DCH5B4WX LQcAoL2q+OO+sZBBLPBAxx0+ipvE3+Gf =Yhp1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2392616.Ni3dvB7k4N--