[mythtv-users] impending failure

[Daryl McDonald]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 4:49 AM Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:

> Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>
> > When you are copying a failing drive, the best tool to use is ddrescue
> > (from the gddrescue package - do not use dd_rescue which is a
> > different program).
>
> +1 for that, it's the most brilliant tool.
>
> The only time it's failed on me was with a Seagate drive - they went
> through a phase when the drive would, after encountering a certain error,
> then fail to respond properly until power cycled. Thus ddrescue would
> progress so far, the drive would encounter an error, then every block after
> that would get marked as failed. Lets just say it didn't improve my opinion
> of Seagate !
>
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So far it looks good, the old drive hadn't failed, I reacted to a warning
of impending faiure. Later today I'll check if I can actually play a
recording from the cloned drive. Thanks again for all the support.  Daryl

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