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 1P4ylh-0002Kl-IW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 16:29:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 93086E0788; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 16:28:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f181.google.com (mail-iw0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74614E0788 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 16:28:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so1192687iwn.40 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:28:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id :subject:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=oWr55/pQpSVDhlFvhbyVEcO7aClRHPoGCUBrHsTvc1Y=; b=Gdt1QIBlbBz3eQ71fs9zXmqxKfAtEV3t/21BNzvsRSh1S+VgXazRukWnhUSH00neeW QnsDYLYwZb7z177m4+IvCtmIy6hEyz9bg00yuF7UD1KHCt/RNj1XWB/KAS3jNwgbnxy5 egS7JtC2pP8GEAQ2gfu4qJgCkqW0u8Nthtgc4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=Gbf8Py1/oHWqYB8Y00TmI5sNVckNOm3IOadxTP9knpAcDa8uiBdXDQGbxeiHR+Et8/ zb4IRXUF4/LDbscRS3t71ejurdEhQC0DZjmIrNtPA1F+AmEkFWjArNFYFa/RZDxdM3D8 5lKRUwDe4m3T3gjIgYPdoKFLMZFAlW8okAe3U= Received: by 10.42.168.193 with SMTP id x1mr1329620icy.300.1286728116193; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:28:36 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: fthtmn@gmail.com Received: by 10.231.19.71 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:28:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201010101101.23597.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <201010101101.23597.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fatih_T=FCmen?= Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:28:06 +0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: iToDlIli3P43ljU_Deaj9Cd2IbM Message-ID: 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 18f69338-4df6-42ed-9f06-c9beda333b6e X-Archives-Hash: 6e10f2c58a0036ea74962d2deac987e6 On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Mick wrote: > 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' :( >> >> 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. > That I was fearing but I cant understand how it can fail all of a sudden. I did not drop it or something. Just ran eix and boom. Would you call it a coincidence of running eix with the best before date of the disk? > Unless your PC can access the drive (dmesg will show what the kernel sees= ) > 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 > removing the drive, which they then installed in a laptop. =A0However, th= ese > were cases where the USB controller was faulty, rather than the moving > elements of the drive itself. > I tried that to a friend laptop's dead drive. It Didt work. I am afraid im in a similar situation here. > If you had access to a forensics lab you could even take the platters out= of > the drive itself and read them on platter reader. =A0On the other hand, i= f you > only had ccache, distfiles and packages a resync with a new external driv= e > will get you a working system again. > I actually thought about that too. There is a forensic lab quite close to me but I doubt that they would bother with this or whether it would worth the effort. > Before you head for the shops you would at least want to try another USB = cable > as Walter suggested, just in case. I found the cable and tried. Same! Anyway thanks for the suggestion.