From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0F902138334 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:21:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4989E0A9C; Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:21:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 725DFE087D for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:21:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [81.157.69.25] (helo=[192.168.1.82]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1gZENF-0006h4-Cq for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:21:22 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] data recovery advice needed To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: From: Wols Lists Message-ID: <5C18E641.7060506@youngman.org.uk> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:21:21 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.0 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 87b0fc1b-0ef8-4ebe-868d-9aeb2fce58fc X-Archives-Hash: 0da29e20d746c1520bd847fdff89beda On 17/12/18 19:32, Jack wrote: > ddrescue has now been running for almost 22 hours, and it's been 47 > seconds less than that since its last successful read. Doesn't sound good. Just to throw my tuppence-worth of bad news into the mix, are your drives in USB enclosures? I really don't trust USB and hard drives, I'd guess maybe 80% of my drive failures have been that combination :-( I've currently got two drives, in USB caddies, that I want to try and salvage, and at some point soon I'll be buying an external eSATA adaptor - that does NOT enclose the drives to give free airflow. The other thing is, if you're having trouble reading the drive, could it be the USB bus that's playing up? Again, I'm very wary of large amounts of data over USB, it just doesn't seem to work for me. Cheers, Wol