[colug-432] disk recovery

[Rick Troth]

On 09/21/2016 05:04 PM, Jeff Frontz wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Rick Troth <rmt at casita.net
> <mailto:rmt at casita.net>> wrote:
>
>     Meanwhile, I'm looking for disk/data recovery advice. 
>
>
> What's the failure mode?    If the drive is still spinning and able to
> (sometimes) do read/writes, you might try something like SpinWrite.

SpinWrite ... I'll check that out.

The symptom is that the disk clicks several times and never shows up
under /proc/partitions. I haven't dug into /sys/devices yet.
This is after pulling it from my wife's Toshiba laptop (which can't
boot, obviously) and putting it into an HP Pavilion "server".

She found it clicking yesterday morning, as if it had been clicking
perpetually for a while.
When she rebooted, it failed, so I took the disk out for analysis.

It's loose on a shelf, tethered with SATA and power, so I can hold it
and feel the disk spinning.
So it doesn't sound like a stiction problem.

-- R; <><



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