From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j2102EK03102 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:02:15 -0500 Received: from cloud.atmos.ucla.edu (cloud.atmos.ucla.edu [128.97.77.46]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j21028Kv013168 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:02:09 -0500 Received: from [128.97.36.177] (taux.igpp.ucla.edu [128.97.36.177]) by cloud.atmos.ucla.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA20997 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:01:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4223B0FE.9050103@gmx.net> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:02:06 -0800 From: langelino MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM1 Bad harddisk. How do I het data off the Volume? References: <421E3614.5010107@gozar.dynu.com> <20050228083636.GA18006@tykepenguin.com> <422351F0.5010005@gozar.dynu.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development Maybe the Maxtor's "Powermax" can get your disk to remember its correct specs. See http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/maxtor/menuitem.3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b091346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Support/Software%20Downloads/ATA%20Hard%20Drives&downloadID=22&displayEULA=true Annoyingly, you need a Windows box to create this utility disk. Good luck M. Matt Colgin wrote: >Hello Heine, > >It sounds like you're in a bad spot. I've been having issues with >Maxtor drives as of late myself. In the past 2 months, I've had 4 die >and 2 WD. Be prepared. I haven't worked with LVM1, but you're probably >sounds independant of the LVM version at this point. > >This bad spot... It's because the BIOS won't recognize the drive. The >only way to get anything off the disk is to get it recognized by the >computer, only then can you do some magical recovery stuff, like >dd_rescue. > >Since you've already tried multiple controllers, the only thing I can >suggest is to try a different computer. The key is going to be >fiddling with the BIOS, only once you get the BIOS to recognize the >drive, will you be able to proceed. Pull everything out of of the >computer that isn't needed for running, that includes extra HD's, >controller cards, sounds cards, everything. Try the Auto-Detect in the >BIOS, if that doesn't work, try giving it the exact CHS parameters, >try different computers (some BIOS will detect it). Try the PowerMax >util from Maxtor, even if you can't get BIOS to quite recognize the >drive, just a quick test as you don't want to strain the drive much >more. > >If you can get it to POST with the correct drive, use the dd_rescue >util and another drive. This will copy the old drive to a new one, at >a sector by sector level. It'll take a *very* long time, but you might >be able to get some data off the drive. But prepared for the worst and >you'll be excited if you get anything off. > >As I said, I've had this happen quite a lot lately, with these crappy >Maxtor drives and their 1 year warranty. DD_rescue took 5 days on a >200 GB drive and was able to get 80% of the data off of the drive, >enough that I could bring up the VG in paritial mode and get a lot of >the data off, but alas a lot was lost too. > >http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ > >On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:16:32 +0100, Heine Laursen > wrote: > > >>go0ogl3 wrote: >> >> >>>Did you check the ATA/ide cable? Did you try to replace that cable or >>>to verify if the drive has one or more ide pins bent or shorted? >>> >>> >>Yes, I have tryed with 2 differnt controlers (onboard, and promse >>controler) and 2 different ide cables. There are no pins who are bent. >> >>Sincerley >>Heine Laursen >> >>_______________________________________________ >>linux-lvm mailing list >>linux-lvm@redhat.com >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >>read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >linux-lvm mailing list >linux-lvm@redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > > > >