From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896AB138247 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2014 23:47:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8775EE09F2; Wed, 1 Jan 2014 23:47:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gg0-f176.google.com (mail-gg0-f176.google.com [209.85.161.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 819AAE09C6 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2014 23:47:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-gg0-f176.google.com with SMTP id l12so2729537gge.35 for ; Wed, 01 Jan 2014 15:47:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=huwflnnZHPkGvClbvoc7KDn6q/yQEKGSj+SX4+kGMVY=; b=TEyQy3v6c0NO+cMUUodtDgpvpAtmsNTeJnO3NTGKthPsbNuK3VqWME/0jhIbuiHDsg tM7l59k8fGP0GgPCUoJf4Bg9nO1HUdEnlACWHcGRPQ5QucswVrEZNwiPSwSo4c7IG0fq xip1aKsAqLQRKw29ciAzxr3M+2Fodfr/n0Cc2FJeipQCIbdeD5hxkRPkRitguFmBUuW9 RFcvy6VRpUEn/0Zi8PFOyryMCNVs+VtTi3NM35XkJw1jcqnEY1c9y3XBm1Qr41YepirM Vjr6KmPxlAN8J7L85LbtkTVIUcqeiiBJvGimjJhnxYs4RIYtshrQvrUB9klyUYY0jR1h kA6g== X-Received: by 10.236.204.74 with SMTP id g50mr253196yho.127.1388620025672; Wed, 01 Jan 2014 15:47:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-129-236.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.129.236]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id l65sm73892909yhk.1.2014.01.01.15.47.04 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 01 Jan 2014 15:47:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <52C4A8F7.4090606@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 17:47:03 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 SeaMonkey/2.23 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: recommendation sought for external disk References: <8761q3bbl1.fsf@nyu.edu> <52C49744.5090308@gmail.com> <8761q39t9l.fsf@nyu.edu> In-Reply-To: <8761q39t9l.fsf@nyu.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 432f5b90-83a4-47ad-87c7-eccad7e1736b X-Archives-Hash: 875976e90c6c43bcbd952307c99317ae gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote: > On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote: > >> On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote: >>> My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for >>> a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. >> Maybe I'm weird or something but I've never once had a hard drive fail >> gradually/gracefully. They all just stop working, usually when I power >> the machine on for the first time in the morning. >> >> What warning is the disk giving you of early failure? > First it wouldn't mount in during startup. > > Then I tried switching the USB ports on the desktop and rebooted. > It mounted but fsck took forever with pauses. > > Then I shut down the system and unplugged the drive. > > allan > > Can you check it with smartmontools? I guess if it can't be mounted tho, it doesn't really matter about the rest. That sort of makes it hard to rescue the data on it. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!