<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>If you made a list of the possible causes of the failures, MythTV shouldn't be on the list. It has no control over the correctness of the filesystem. That would be the OS's job.</div><div><br></div><div>If the drive passes a read-only test, which only checks if each sector can be read successfully not the contents of the sector, then either the OS had an issue that corrupted the FS, or there was a problem with the data channel. Both of those a pretty unlikely these days, except old hardware might cause a data issue.</div><div><br></div><div>If the drive fails a read-only test, the damage goes beyond the filesystem, either to the circuit board of the drive or the platters themselves. This is usually caused by low quality components, old age, or bad power. If your system is on a UPS with AVR, it's probably not bad power.<br></div><div><br></div><div>SMART can be a useful tool to see if drives are showing signs of age: Backblaze has done some analysis to see what SMART metrics are useful when trying to predict an impending drive failure.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-smart-stats-indicate-hard-drive-failures/">https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-smart-stats-indicate-hard-drive-failures/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Not all manufacturers use the stats in transparent ways: e.g., one of my drives reports a Reallocated Sectors Count of 2^31 - 1.</div><div><br></div><div>On a different note, 5 years ago I discovered several of my drives had failed, but the OS still kept using them. A few months later, it dawned on me that I probably shouldn't be using the vacuum cleaner's carpet attachment right next to the computers and external disk under my desk.</div><div><br></div><div>Matt<br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 1:41 PM Larry Finger <<a href="mailto:Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net">Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 3/17/19 12:21 PM, Craig Treleaven wrote:<br>
> So, yet again, the drive with all my recordings is unreadable. This has happened to me in September 2015, August 2013 and at least one time before that although I’m not sure of the date. And again this past Tuesday night. I know the dates because in 2013 I started labelling drives and enclosures with the date purchased and I purchased these items specifically because of these problems.<br>
> <br>
> I’m running Myth on Mac so virtually none of you care. However, if there is someone out there on OS X that has experienced this and actually KNOWS a solution, I’d love to hear it. I’ve tried a number of things over the last several days with success. Various versions of Apple’s Disk Utility. Swapping the drive into a couple of known-good enclosures. Tried TestDisk. The closest I got was that Disk Utility would mount the volume even though it reported it as damaged. But CarbonCopyCloner was never able to copy more than 150MB off it.<br>
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What does smartctl have to say about this drive? The utility is part of <br>
smartmontools.<br>
<br>
I do not use OS X, but I have had a number of disk failures over the years. I <br>
finally implemented RAID on my system. I have / and /home mounted on RAID5, and <br>
/boot on RAID0, with /boot/efi not in a RAID array. Since setting up the system, <br>
I had one drive fail. Given Murphy's law, the failed drive was the one with <br>
/boot/efi, but I had a backup copy on another drive. A few minutes work using a <br>
rescue system got me back up and running with no loss of data.<br>
<br>
Larry<br>
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