[ILUG] [Q] dead hard disc replacements (and last "backup")?

[laurent]

LDLC.com or grosbill.com

are big french vendors.

 

Le lundi 25 mai 2009 à 21:07 +0200, Brian Foster a écrit :
> this is on an exclusively-Linux system....
> 
>   my old/original hard disc seems to have gone kaput in that
>   when I boot-up there are loads of errors.  this is not any
>   big deal, since  (1) my "live" system+data is on the 2nd
>   disc;  and  (2) I have a full backup of the dead disc.
> 
>   (what I don't have is a suitably recent backup of my live
>   2nd drive!  ;-\  )
> 
>   anyways, before I remove the dead drive (to be, I presume,
>   replaced with another) is there anything I could try to
>   backup it up one more time (strictly as a precaution)?
> 
>   alternatively, after I remove but before I smash it into
>   tiny bits (for security), is there anything I could try?
> 
>   it's a 40GB ATA unit (c.7 years old).  the errors I'm
>   getting are not too informative:
> 
>      kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 4
>      kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical block 2
> 
>   for more-or-less any sector / logical block values.
> 
>   looking back over the logs, there seem to be hints from
>   SMART that both(!) drives are failing.  this isn't too
>   surprising, since both are old (the 2nd live unit is now
>   c.4 years old).
> 
>   also, any recommend/reputable on-line suppliers of ATA
>   hard discs (who will ship to France)?
> 
> cheers!
> 	-blf-
> 
> -- 
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Laurent