Re: Dead hard drive

[Henrik W Lund]

Kurt wrote:
You might try the freezer trick.
Bag the drive securely against moisture, put it in the freezer for
several hours, then put it back in the machine while still very cold,
and see if it responds. If it does, get the data you need from it
quickly.
You may require several attempts to get all of the data you need, or it
may not work at all, but all it costs is a litle time.
 

Quite the unorthodox suggestion there, but I'll try anything once. ;-)
Just have to make sure that the condensed humidity doesn't fry anything. 
Leave all the cables plugged in and hanging outside the bag, maybe? 
Hmm... Now where did I put that spare extension power cable?

-Henrik W Lund
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Re: OT: Dead hard drive

[Henrik W Lund]

Paul wrote:
Henrik W Lund wrote:
Has anyone got any clue as to what may have happened, and how one can 
go about accessing the drive?

Take the electronics board from a similar drive and use it to run your 
bad drive.

Does the drive at least spin up?
Yes, the drive spins up perfectly. Sadly, it's quite an old drive, and I 
don't have any other drives like it (it's a 30GB IBM DTLA-307030), so I 
don't have any electronics boards that will fit. Oh well, I can at least 
leave it lying around, just in case. ;-)

-Henrik W Lund
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Re: OT: Dead hard drive

[stheg olloydson]

it was said:

>It was working fine and then one day: power down -
>power up - *poof* the harddrive is gone from the BIOS
>POST.
>
>I've tried exchanging IDE cables, putting it on a
>different controller, even a different PC, but it
>will not be detected. I can hear it spin up all
>right, so I know it's not its power unit. The disk
>had shown no signs of being about to bail (even
>though it is a couple of years old). There's nothing
>vital stored on it, although I would like to salvage 
>what I can.
>
>Has anyone got any clue as to what may have happened,
>and how one can go about accessing the drive?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>-Henrik W Lund

Hello,

This is a classic symptom of an IDE drive's onboard
controller going bad. You have two solutions. The
first is to change out the controller with one from an
identical drive and then run a surface scan using
either the manufacturer's diagnostic tool or another
tool capable of remapping the drive's bad sectors.
This is because the new controller will have the other
drive's map. Don't forget to redo the map on the other
drive when you replace the controller. I did this two
weeks ago for a client.
The second solution involves a cleanroom and lots of
money.

HTH,

Stheg

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OT: Dead hard drive

[Henrik W Lund]

Greetings list!
Sorry for the OT post, but this is about the only place I know where 
people may have an answer to my problem. See, I have a hard drive that 
refuses to be detected by the BIOS. It was working fine and then one 
day: power down - power up - *poof* the harddrive is gone from the BIOS 
POST.

I've tried exchanging IDE cables, putting it on a different controller, 
even a different PC, but it will not be detected. I can hear it spin up 
all right, so I know it's not its power unit. The disk had shown no 
signs of being about to bail (even though it is a couple of years old). 
There's nothing vital stored on it, although I would like to salvage 
what I can.

Has anyone got any clue as to what may have happened, and how one can go 
about accessing the drive?

Thanks in advance!
-Henrik W Lund
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Dead hard drive I think

[twig les]

Hey *,

A couple weeks ago I posted some error code and someone said it
was probably a dying hard drive.  I believe he was correct and
that the drive is actively getting worse (it's in a "lights-out"
center in another state so I wish I could poke at it but I
can't).  I'm hoping someone can confirm that it is the hard
drive that needs to be replaced since I will have to tell
management what to buy (and accounting is CHEAP) and it would
really be embarrassing to have to order a second piece of
hardware.  Basically these are the messages I found in
/var/log/messges and dmesg (da0 is the first SCSI drive).  

==

Jul 23 10:40:31 mas02 /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Invalidating
pack
Jul 23 10:41:01 mas02 last message repeated 454274 times
Jul 23 10:41:27 mas02 last message repeated 383695 times
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): SCB 0x2a -
timed out
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: ahc0: Dumping Card State while
idle, at SEQADDR 0x8
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: ACCUM = 0x0, SINDEX = 0x38,
DINDEX = 0xe4, ARG_2 = 0x0
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: HCNT = 0x0 SCBPTR = 0xa
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: SCSISEQ = 0x12, SBLKCTL = 0xa
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: DFCNTRL = 0x0, DFSTATUS = 0x89
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: LASTPHASE = 0x1, SCSISIGI = 0x0,
SXFRCTL0 = 0x80
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: SSTAT0 = 0x0, SSTAT1 = 0x8
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: SCSIPHASE = 0x0
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: STACK == 0x3, 0x108, 0x160, 0x0
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: SCB count = 70
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: Kernel NEXTQSCB = 30
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: Card NEXTQSCB = 30
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: QINFIFO entries: 
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: Waiting Queue entries: 
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: Disconnected Queue entries: 3:42 
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: QOUTFIFO entries: 
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: Sequencer Free SCB List: 10 19 28
7 29 2 18 22 26 31 9 24 6 15 4 21 27 0 12 30 8 14 16 25 13 11 17
20 23 5 1 
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: Sequencer SCB Info: 0(c 0x60, s
0x17, l 0, t 0xff) 1(c 0x60, s 0x7, l 0, t 0xff) 2(c 0x60, s
0x17, l 0, t 0xff) 3(c 0x66, s 0x7, 
l 0, t 0x2a) 4(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t 0xff) 5(c 0x60, s 0x17, l
0, t 0xff) 6(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t 0xff) 7(c 0x62, s 0x17, l 0,
t 0xff) 8(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, 
t 0xff) 9(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t 0xff) 10(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t
0xff) 11(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t 0xff) 12(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t
0xff) 13(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t
 0xff) 14(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t 0xff) 15(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t
0xff) 16(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t 0xff) 17(c 0x60, s 0x7, l 0, t
0xff) 18(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t 
0xff) 19(c 0x62, s 0x17, l 0, t 0xff) 20(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t
0xff) 21(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t 0xff) 22(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t
0xff) 23(c 0x60, s 0x7, l 0, t 0
xff) 24(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t 0xff) 25(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t
0xff) 26(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t 0xff) 27(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t
0xff) 28(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t 0
xff) 29(c 0x62, s 0x17, l 0, t 0xff) 30(c 0x60, s 0x17, l 0, t
0xff) 31(c 0x60, s 0x17
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: 0xff) 
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: Pending list: 42(c 0x62, s 0x7, l
0)
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: Kernel Free SCB list: 56 3 36 61
32 60 22 21 23 15 12 19 62 67 8 14 13 9 55 69 39 52 18 64 50 25
26 35 34 31 28 29 24 58 7 38 4 5
9 43 2 49 5 16 40 0 68 17 57 65 6 20 37 44 66 53 11 54 41 47 45
63 27 10 46 1 33 51 48 
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: sg[0] - Addr 0xcebc000 : Length
4096
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: sg[1] - Addr 0xcefd000 : Length
4096
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: sg[2] - Addr 0xcebe000 : Length
4096
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: sg[3] - Addr 0xcedf000 : Length
4096
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Queuing a BDR
SCB
Jul 23 10:41:28 mas02 /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): no longer in
timeout, status = 34a
Jul 23 10:41:31 mas02 last message repeated 44141 times
Jul 23 10:41:31 mas02 /kernel: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Invalidating pack

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