Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 06:55:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>> It was more Murphy's law I was worried about.  ;-) 
> Hasn't that been deprecated in favour of Dale's Law?
>
>

If it hasn't, maybe it should.  It's strange tho, I have good luck with
a lot of things, even computer hardware really, but messing with some
new software generally leads to trouble.  Hal was the first really bad
thing.  There was some other thing that popped up that I can't recall
and recently the init thingy kept me from booting.  I then booted the
init thingy off here.  I just keep a up to date Kubuntu disk laying
around.  ;-)  New software just doesn't like me or my rig much.  Older
stuff seems to work fine.  It's the things that seem to be new that
really crawl under my skin.  It seems they always bite me even when it
works for most everyone else.  That was pretty much the case with hal. 
It just would not work on my rig.  I give the dev credit tho, he
realized it was a mess and started over from scratch.  At least he
realized the boo boo. 

On this old drive.  I got my data copied over and tested the stuffin out
of the new drive and then tested it a few more times.  Looks good for
the new drive.  I'm doing a dd on the old drive now and I plan to let it
at least get to where that bad spot is.  I figure if I let dd do its
thing on the whole drive, that should get it, unless I lose power or
something and have to stop it.  After that, I'm going to put a file
system on it and fill it up and test it and see what it says then. 
Maybe it will fix itself and I can at least use it as a occasional
backup or something.   I dunno. 

I noticed when I copied the data over that some files had a line of
question marks in the name.  Since a question mark is a wild card, I
can't find them now.  How does one search for a file name that has a
wild card in it?

Dale

:-)  :-)