Hi,

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Dave Stevens wrote:

> I am trying to use by FC6 box to recover some data from a Windows XP NTFS
> drive that is giving a SMART warning. It is under warranty so all I want is
> to get the data off and send it in for replacement. The failing drive is a
> SATA-II Samsung 2504C.

Quite many reports recently about bad hardwares ... Seagate, WD, Samsung 
... Does anybody know if there is any company who can still make reliable 
disks?

> I can boot the dud system from a Knoppix CD and mount the drive and read 
> most data. But I can't get it off, it is much too large to ftp to a 
> remote site in the time I have available.
>
> I moved the drive to my FC6 box and rebooted. At startup time there are 
> errors that I don't understand in dmesg, "SStatus 123, SControl 300" and 
> the drive is not mounted. I have tried mounting it with ,
>
> "# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sda1 -o force"
>
> but get various helpful messages that seem not to be applicable.

What ntfs-3g version do you use and what is the exact error message?

        Szaka


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