RE: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.

["Nelson, David \(ED, PAR&D\)" <David.Nelson2@astrazeneca.com>]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Alan E. Davis [mailto:lngndvs@gmail.com]
Sent: 03 January 2007 11:50
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.


> I am still in limbo about this drive.  I have gotten a disk scanning utility from Gateway, and am now trying to get together a floppy to test it that way.  
> 
> I have had another HDD issue this week, on a SATA drive.  I may post separately about that.  I can see partitions from Ubuntu that I 
> cannot see from Gentoo.  Etc.  Back to the laptop.  I hope for the best, and suspect that somehow the disk was corrupted by software, 
> and if so I HOPE it can be  recovered.  Otherwise, I guess I can run a live cd and save files to a usb flash drive!  I haven't heard any  
> strange noises, but the freezer trick would certainly be a last resort. 

Sounds like some sort of driver issue then surely? Or a kernel config issue. I can't say more than that about it I'm afraid - I'm not entirely sure.
 
David
 
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