On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 06:15:20PM -0500, Brian wrote:
> > hdb: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hdb: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> > hdb: 8404830 sectors (4303 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=555/240/63
> > hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 8403864
>
> Indicates a failing disk, but you knew that already :-)
>
> > Also I do not have the dd_rescue utility installed
>
> dd will work too. dd_rescue has a couple options that work better for
> this type of thing, but in a pinch dd should give you the same result.
Well, go ahead and try dd first. If it doesn't work than you can
try to get dd_rescue from http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ .
It doesn't look like they have a Mandrake rpm, but they have a
Suse package which might work.
Good luck.
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