Did my hard drives die?

Negated Void · l33t Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 672

So i moved a Promise Ultra ATA 100 controller card form my other computer to this one.

/dev/hde: Brand new 200 gig
/dev/hdg: Older reiser drive
/dev/hdh:Older ext3 drive

I made a reiserfs partition on hde1. Mounted them all. Copied everything from /dev/hdh1 fo /dev/hde1. Went to reformat /dev/hdh1.

Started getting errors about "bad blocks" and stuff. figured a reboot.

/dev/hdh gives huge list of errors on boot.

Now, /dev/hdg will mount. Both /dev/hde and /dev/hdh (diffrent channels even) say "Bad Superblock". I can't format /dev/hdh1 - i get a cannot read the block error.

What do you think? Did both drives die? did my controller die? Did i do somethign immensely stupid?

I can't quite take it apart and move drives around till the morning.. so till then I ponder...
--Murph

nlindblad · Guru Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 476 Location: Lund, Sweden

Bad blocks are often but not always an indicator of a failing disk, it could also be of a messed up/corrupt filesystem.

Have you done proper fsck on them?
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Negated Void · l33t Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 672

Mmkay. Unplugged them from the controller card, plugged them into my remaining onboard spot (/dev/hdd) one at a time.

New Maxtor Drive: Works great, has all the contents of the older ext3 drive, just as i copied them.

Old ext3 drive: Errors hundreds of times on boot with things like Buffer Read Error's, Drive not ready, Bad Block, Unknown Address, etc.

Older resier drive: just makes a "click.... click.... click" noise and dosn't register to the bios.

What the heck? I just don't understand this - did both of these drives die at the SAME TIME? They both workred for 2-3 years since i've got them, took them here, they both worked for a couple hours (look: a 200GB copy of one succeded, but the other's not backed up :'-() and they both fail at the same time?

Could I have done somethign wrong? Is there anything that can be done to possibly recover these?

--Murph

PS - Nlindblad, a fsck was very helpfull for the drive that does work. thanks.

nlindblad · Guru Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 476 Location: Lund, Sweden

The "click, click, click one" is definately broke.

As I said, bad blocks could be other things than hardwarefailure, did you try fsck?
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Negated Void · l33t Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 672

Thoes errors are before i try to mount it.

It slows my system - takes 10 minutes to boot.

I don't even get a /dev/hdd1 object - just /dev/hdd - can i fsck that?
cfdisk /dev/hdd does still SHOW the /dev/hdd1 in it...

Is there bychance any tips to get the clicky drive to work for a lil while? I've heard odd storys about dropping/freezing/heating/whatever before.

--Murph