On 12/13/05, anders smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My main myth drive (a 200Gb Mator Diamond Max plus 9) suddenly > dissappeared from sight. > It was part of and LVM and formated with XFS. (I'm running FC3 based > on Wilsonets howto) > The system kept running except for mythbackend, it closed down and > that was how I found out. > > I've tried fsck, gpart, fdisk and debugfs without luck. > > None of them can get past a read error...here are a few lines from the output. > I get the same errors when I boot and use the abovementioned tools > --- > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:45 (hdb), sector 0 > dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError } > --- > Luckily the drive is still under warrenty and I've just requested the > replacement from Maxtor. > It would be great to get all the programs off first, but unless > someone have here a hint of how I might do it, I'm screwed... > > thanks > anders > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
I can highly recommend a program called Spinrite: http://grc.com/spinrite.htm Takes a while to run, but is usually able to get a drive working long enough, to get the data off it. John _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users