[mythtv-users] Hard drive failure -- recovery method suggestions

[Jerry]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi Jerry,
>
> Tuesday, April 28, 2015, 3:50:34 PM, you wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
> >>
> >> IIRC you currently have the HDD in a USB enclosure - are you sure the
> USB
> >> enclosure is not messing with things? Have you tried putting it back
> onto a
> >> SATA port again, maybe on a different PC?
> >>
>
> > I just plugged it into the same alternate machine by the SATA cable.  I
> got
> > the same result as seen below:
>
> > [root at htpc ~]# smartctl -i /dev/sdd
> > smartctl 6.2 2014-07-16 r3952 [x86_64-linux-3.19.5-200.fc21.x86_64]
> (local
> > build)
> > Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
> www.smartmontools.org
>
> > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> > Device Model:     ST3000DM001
> > Serial Number:    <serial number>
> > LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 04edd0b44
> > Firmware Version: CC29
> > User Capacity:    137,438,952,960 bytes [137 GB]
> > Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
> > Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
> > Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
> > ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
> > SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s
> > Local Time is:    Tue Apr 28 09:47:15 2015 EDT
> > SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
> > SMART support is: Enabled
>
> > It was worth a shot. :)
>
> > Jerry
>
> 137 GB is an old BIOS limit. So it gets its size from the bios, not
> from the drive. I guess.
>

That may very well be the case.  But this is what my new drive shows in my
backend.  Note that is is not the machine I have been using to get the
other SMART data.

[root at backend ~]# smartctl -i /dev/sdb
smartctl 6.2 2014-07-16 r3952 [x86_64-linux-3.19.5-200.fc21.x86_64] (local
build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF)
Device Model:     ST3000DM001-1CH166
Serial Number:    <serial number>
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 065267225
Firmware Version: CC27
User Capacity:    3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2, ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 3b
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Tue Apr 28 10:16:55 2015 EDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

On another note, wouldn't I have to reconstruct the MBR to resurrect the
failing drive?  I don't have a backup copy of my partition table.  I know
that there are three partitions but I am ignorant as to their exact
geometry, or even which one comes first.
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