From: Gert van der Knokke <gertk@xs4all.nl>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM disk died
Date: Sun Jul 13 03:04:01 2003 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F111240.5080807@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20030712160456.02b2e398@imap.phys.unsw.edu.au>
Melinda Taylor wrote:
> can someone direct me to the faq that shows me how to recover from a
> dead drive.
>
> I had LVM spanning 4 HDDs and one will no longer spin up.
Hi Melinda,
Sometimes a 'dead' drive can be brought back to (temporary) live again
by giving it a hard knock or better: a sharp twist, as the heads tend to
stick to the surface of the platters. Mind though that such a drive is
not trustworthy anymore but if it does spin up you might be able to get
the data off it.
Best way to this is to take the drive out of the PC and hold it flat in
your hand and give it a sharp twist in the horizontal direction. This
helped me a few times with such 'sticky' drives. After that, mount it
back in the PC and try it.
Good luck,
Gert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-13 3:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-12 22:19 [linux-lvm] LVM disk died Melinda Taylor
2003-07-13 3:04 ` Gert van der Knokke [this message]
2003-07-13 6:06 ` Melinda Taylor
2003-07-13 12:24 ` [linux-lvm] Enough rope to hang self (was: LVM disk died) William Blunn
2003-07-16 19:39 ` [linux-lvm] LVM recovery Melinda Taylor
2003-07-16 23:25 ` Melinda Taylor
2003-07-16 23:37 ` Melinda Taylor
2003-07-17 2:05 ` Emmanuel Varagnat
2003-07-20 21:00 ` Melinda Taylor
2003-07-21 12:25 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2003-07-30 5:27 ` [linux-lvm] LVM disk died Emmanuel Varagnat
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