2010/1/19 Daniel O'Connor <docon...@gsoft.com.au> > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Morgan Wesström wrote: > > The disks involved don't happen to be Western Digital Green Power > > disks, do they? The Intelli-Park function in these disks are wrecking > > havoc with I/O in Linux-land at least, causing massive stalls and > > iowait through the roof during the 25-30 seconds it takes for the > > heads to unload after parking. I have two of these disks sitting on > > my desk now collecting dust... > > There's this.. > http://www.silentpcreview.com/Terabyte_Drive_Fix > > and you can get the tool at.. > http://home.arcor.de/ghostadmin/wdidle3_1_00.zip > > I am planning to try this out tonight.. > > I just put my WD5000AACS (it has the same problem) in my Windows PC and did a SMART drive quick self-test with the WD utility (Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows). I also tried this Idle Mode Updade Utility but it did not attach to my drive. So i put it back to my FreeBSD box (8.0-Stable) and recognized that I am not able to decrypt it anymore with geli. It keeps telling: "# geli attach -k /etc/keys/keyfile /dev/ada0 geli: Cannot read metadata from /dev/ada0: Invalid argument." A geli backup command failed with "geli: MD5 hash mismatch: not a geli provider?"
I think Windows has messed up something on my disk, but a fdisk dump looks still the same as before: "# fdisk /dev/ada0 ******* Working on device /dev/ada0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=969021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=969021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 976773105 (476939 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 316/ head 15/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is: <UNUSED>" Are there any things I could try or is all my data gone? Thanks in advance _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"