off topic - disk crash

[Søren Schmidt]

Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:

> It is now dumping and I'm at 2.7 GB meanwhile. No more errors since the
> last one at LBA=670000 . Are these LBS identical to the block #?

Yes.


> Maybe I'll give it another try (when this pass is through) and dump
> from the beginning.
> 
> I'm about to get me a second identical model and maybe I then can dd
> the whole image including partition table so that I will not have to
> scan the disk for the start of the filesystems.

Dont get another DTLA/AVER IBM disk, you will just have the same problem 
again sometime in the future, stay away from IBM/Hitachi disks that is 
based on these models (I dont know much about the newer disks from 
Hitachi and frankly I wont waste my money on them to find out).

-- 
-Søren