Mr O, I think you'll be able to help me as to where to go next...
The drive serial number is: IC35L040AVER07-0, which happens to be one of those 40 GB IBM 60 GXP drives that everyone eventually has the very same problems with... eventual bad sectors and lost data. I purchased the drive 10-Dec-2001, so over 2 years ago. I'm hoping it's one of those still under 3 year warranty. I got it from buy.com. By searching for that serial number, I found that others have been able to send their drive back and get another (different) one. That overcomes my problem of a bunk drive. Now for the problem of somehow getting as much of my data off of there as possible. Anyone played with dd_rescue? http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ -Rob > On 20030111.1714, Mr O said ... > > fsck may not return what you really want to know. Best advice is > to go to the manufacturers website and download their disk > utility. With that you can do a full scan on the disk and find > out what bad sectors there are and/or if the drive is worth > saving by doing a low format. _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
