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Ultra 6 - Disk 1 Dead, Disk 2 Dead? (#22070141) (Solved)
I had one of my drives die on my Ultra 6, Disk 1. I've always replaced any disk I saw going bad before it "died". When I replaced the dead disk it started to resync. I let that run all night. This mor...
mdgm, I intend to go to dual redundancy after I see this issue through.
I have a new issue that's likely Linux related.
Here's what Netgear asked me to do after my resync failed:
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Use a Knoppix 6.2 Live CD for this guide. Can be found at http://www.knoppix.net
Using dd_rescue command allows you to copy data from one drive to another block for block. This is especially useful for recovering a failed drive. Often when a drive fails, the drive is still accessible, it has just surpassed the S.M.A.R.T. error threshold. dd_rescue allows you to ignore the bad sectors and continue cloning the bad drive to a new healthy drive.
1) Connect your old drive ["bad" disk2] and new drive to your PC.
2) Boot up using your Linux live CD.
3) Launch a terminal window.
4) Run fdisk -l to make sure the system sees both of the hard drives.
5) Run hdparm -i /dev/sdx on both of the drives to find which drive is your source drive and which drive is your destination drive.
6) Once you know which drive is which you can start the clone process.
dd_rescue /dev/sdx(source disk) /dev/sdx(destination drive)
7) You will see the process start, just keep an eye on it, it might take a few hours for the clone job to finish, depending on the size of the drive.
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When I do Step 4: fdisk -l I get this message:
WARNING! GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on ''/DEV/SDB''! Util FDISK doesn''t support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
I have no idea what that means. I searched around a bit but trying to learn Linux and the lingo is beyond me at this point. Hell, I was happy enough to be able to boot into Linux and see both my source and target drives. :D
Can anyone give me a suggestion or point me to a basic Linux forum?
Dave-
I have a new issue that's likely Linux related.
Here's what Netgear asked me to do after my resync failed:
-------------
Use a Knoppix 6.2 Live CD for this guide. Can be found at http://www.knoppix.net
Using dd_rescue command allows you to copy data from one drive to another block for block. This is especially useful for recovering a failed drive. Often when a drive fails, the drive is still accessible, it has just surpassed the S.M.A.R.T. error threshold. dd_rescue allows you to ignore the bad sectors and continue cloning the bad drive to a new healthy drive.
1) Connect your old drive ["bad" disk2] and new drive to your PC.
2) Boot up using your Linux live CD.
3) Launch a terminal window.
4) Run fdisk -l to make sure the system sees both of the hard drives.
5) Run hdparm -i /dev/sdx on both of the drives to find which drive is your source drive and which drive is your destination drive.
6) Once you know which drive is which you can start the clone process.
dd_rescue /dev/sdx(source disk) /dev/sdx(destination drive)
7) You will see the process start, just keep an eye on it, it might take a few hours for the clone job to finish, depending on the size of the drive.
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When I do Step 4: fdisk -l I get this message:
WARNING! GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on ''/DEV/SDB''! Util FDISK doesn''t support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
I have no idea what that means. I searched around a bit but trying to learn Linux and the lingo is beyond me at this point. Hell, I was happy enough to be able to boot into Linux and see both my source and target drives. :D
Can anyone give me a suggestion or point me to a basic Linux forum?
Dave-
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