Preventing the kernel to perform i/o on plugged in HDD

2016-09-03 Thread David Balažic
Hi! I'm trying to rescue some data from a damaged HDD (attached over USB) and run into the problem that when reading from a damaged part of the drive, it goes into "panic mode" and refusing access even to good parts (happened before with other drive). As the kernel reads the partitioning related

Preventing the kernel to perform i/o on plugged in HDD

2016-09-03 Thread David Balažic
Hi! I'm trying to rescue some data from a damaged HDD (attached over USB) and run into the problem that when reading from a damaged part of the drive, it goes into "panic mode" and refusing access even to good parts (happened before with other drive). As the kernel reads the partitioning related