[dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

[Gary Kjos]

Glad to hear you got the data you needed off of it. You could perhaps
check on the drive manufacturers site for a low level format program.
I have heard that Seagate had one for it's drives at one time.

GK

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> My guess at about 140 days for this job (see below) was quite precise. That would have been ultimo September.
>
> It finished today!
>
> I had to break it into some steps with a day in between now and then, so it was quite close.
>
> The malfunctioning drive is running steady but at an incredibly low transfer speed. It has no warranty any longer, so does anyone know if you can "reignite" a SATA drive? In the old days you could do a low level format of a hard drive but I guess the SATA interface prohibits that.
>
> /gustav
>
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Gustav Brock
> Sendt: 19. maj 2015 15:17
> Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or?
>
> Hi Jim
>
> Now passed 10% at 117 GB ...
>
> /gustav
>
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Gustav Brock
> Sendt: 13. maj 2015 20:35
> Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or?
>
> Hi Jim
>
> No I haven't - and at this time a can't plug it in. So I cross fingers, but power here is very stable.
>
> However, the copy process of Yodot has an option for not trying to replace existing files, so worst case after a relaunch would be the extra time to read the directory structure and move through the existing file list. It couldn't take that long.
>
> In the meantime: Passed 6% at 72 GB ...
>
> /gustav
>
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Jim Lawrence
> Sendt: 13. maj 2015 20:22
> Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or?
>
> Hi Gustav:
>
> Do you have a UPS attached to the computer? It might be frustrating if the power went out sometime in September just before the program wrote the boot track.
>
> If this works as planned Yodot will definitely be the go to application for drive recovery.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:20:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or?
>
> Hi Jim
>
> Yes:
>
> <quote>
> So I turned to Yodot (the drive repair version at USD 80) which, as the first, tries to pull the data off the drive before attempting a repair. This seems to run - at about 330 MB per hour.
>
> Speak about patience: my little calculator tells me that the job will go on for 140 days ...
> </quote>
>
> It seems to run steady.
>
> /gustav
>
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