Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-19 Thread elder sixpack13
> The dd-rescue package on linux should work just fine. Assuming you > can get the disk to respond. If the disk is taking 180s then the disk > is not responding at all, and even if the disk were responding in 10 > sec any rescue program will take longer than anyone will wait. The > software too

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-16 Thread elder sixpack13
> On 2021-03-16 at 15:40:23 Erik P. Olsen wrote: ... > Well, unfortunately for DOS/Windows only. there are small iso's (~10 MB). I guess mediawriter should be able to put that on an usb stick too or a cd-writer on an cd. ___ users mailing list -- users@

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-16 Thread elder sixpack13
> I've had this 1 TB drive for about 1 year and have been using it succesfully > for > backups > of my anf my wife's systems and suddenly yesterday morning I was unable to > mount it. > Neither fdisk nor gparted can see it ... maybe this might help to get some data/the disk back: https://www.hda

Re: speed of dd

2021-03-16 Thread elder sixpack13
> When I do something like: > > dd if='fedora.iso' of=/dev/sdb status=progress > > I only get around 6 megabytes per second on a USB 2 Sandisk Cruzer > Blade flashdrive (store bought, not fleabay) plugged directly into a > motherboard's USB 3 port - one that's not sharing its host with any > oth

Re: Weird graphics errors with recent kernels

2021-02-20 Thread elder sixpack13
> The last 2 or 3 kernel updates seem to have triggered a regression in > the i915 (internal Intel GPU) driver. I get damaged screen updates, > very noticeable tearing on videos and occasional freezes in the DE > (Plasma under X11). A look at the journal shows: > simular here on an Intel HD Graphi

Re: Backing up system

2021-02-02 Thread elder sixpack13
> On 27 Mar 2009 at 12:42, Bill Crawford wrote: > > From: Bill Crawford Organization: None > To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com > Subject: Re: Backing up system > Date sent:Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:42:56 + > Copies to:"Michae