> Quite many reports recently about bad hardwares ... Seagate, WD, Samsung > ... Does anybody know if there is any company who can still make reliable > disks?
don`t know - but two weeks ago i bought 4 WD "Raid Edition" SATA disks where TWO of them didn`t survive some hours of "burn in" test. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Szabolcs Szakacsits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dave Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 2:30 AM Subject: Re: [ntfs-3g-devel] can't mount ntfs drive with SMART problem > > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > ntfs-3g-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ ntfs-3g-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel
