> 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 tools will only work if the disk is bad sectors, with the > disk not responding at all that makes it more likely the disk is > simply dead, or the power supply/usb controller is dead. > > Best plan would be to get it out of the usb enclosure and see if > smartctl will return anything useful and see if the disk behaves > better. >
well, when it's dead, it might be dead for smartctl command's too.... No ? ;-) _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
