Re: [arch-general] Bad Magic Number in Superblock - Any trick for Arch or for new kernels?

2010-06-13 Thread David C. Rankin
On 06/10/2010 05:20 PM, Gary Wright wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Axel Müller axel-mueller...@web.de wrote: I think it was about 1 1/2 year ago when there was a big fuss about some Seagate drive models going bad because of a firmware bug. Seagate provided a firmware update for

Re: [arch-general] Bad Magic Number in Superblock - Any trick for Arch or for new kernels?

2010-06-10 Thread Mauro Santos
On 06/10/2010 02:00 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: I do like badblocks. It saved my bacon once before. Rather than doing the badblock recovery (since I have the data), what I think I'll do is search a bit more for the 'fdisk -l' info for the drive. If I find it, I'll try recreating the

Re: [arch-general] Bad Magic Number in Superblock - Any trick for Arch or for new kernels?

2010-06-10 Thread Mauro Santos
On 06/10/2010 05:06 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Your experience sounds exactly like mine over the past year. I have had 4 Seagate drives supposedly go bad after 13-14 months use (1-2 months after warranty runs out). The problem is always the same - smart says there is a badblock problem

Re: [arch-general] Bad Magic Number in Superblock - Any trick for Arch or for new kernels?

2010-06-10 Thread Axel Müller
Am Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:06:36 -0500 schrieb David C. Rankin: Your experience sounds exactly like mine over the past year. I have had 4 Seagate drives supposedly go bad after 13-14 months use (1-2 months after warranty runs out). Hi. I think it was about 1 1/2 year ago when there was a

Re: [arch-general] Bad Magic Number in Superblock - Any trick for Arch or for new kernels?

2010-06-10 Thread Gary Wright
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Axel Müller axel-mueller...@web.de wrote: I think it was about 1 1/2 year ago when there was a big fuss about some Seagate drive models going bad because of a firmware bug. Seagate provided a firmware update for these. If you haven't allready done so, you

Re: [arch-general] Bad Magic Number in Superblock - Any trick for Arch or for new kernels?

2010-06-09 Thread David C. Rankin
On 06/09/2010 01:16 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: The situation: On reboot - grub 22 error boot arch install cd 2009-08, cannot mount drive partition table shows 1 partition /dev/hda1 (PATA drive) (should be 3) (I can't put my hands on the saved 'fdisk -l' data, it's

Re: [arch-general] Bad Magic Number in Superblock - Any trick for Arch or for new kernels?

2010-06-09 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi David, Excerpts from David C. Rankin's message of Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:16 -0500: Before I add the drive to the heap of drives in my 'dead drive box' are there any other silver bullets I should try to try and resurrect the drive? (Data isn't an issue, it's all backed up :-) I had

Re: [arch-general] Bad Magic Number in Superblock - Any trick for Arch or for new kernels?

2010-06-09 Thread Mauro Santos
On 06/09/2010 07:16 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Before I add the drive to the heap of drives in my 'dead drive box' are there any other silver bullets I should try to try and resurrect the drive? (Data isn't an issue, it's all backed up :-) What say the gurus? Try issuing a

Re: [arch-general] Bad Magic Number in Superblock - Any trick for Arch or for new kernels?

2010-06-09 Thread David C. Rankin
On 06/09/2010 03:14 PM, Sergey Manucharian wrote: Hi David, Excerpts from David C. Rankin's message of Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:16 -0500: Before I add the drive to the heap of drives in my 'dead drive box' are there any other silver bullets I should try to try and resurrect the drive?

Re: [arch-general] Bad Magic Number in Superblock - Any trick for Arch or for new kernels?

2010-06-09 Thread David C. Rankin
On 06/09/2010 03:44 PM, Mauro Santos wrote: On 06/09/2010 07:16 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Before I add the drive to the heap of drives in my 'dead drive box' are there any other silver bullets I should try to try and resurrect the drive? (Data isn't an issue, it's all backed up :-)