That would seem to be the case. However, I have used -many- of these Seagates and I have never seen one suddenly pooch before. I am debating running the Seagate test on it or decide to just recommend having it sent to a data recovery house... I know that backups of the superblock are made, do you know by chance how to locate them and/or how to tell the OS to use one for mounting? Also, at least two partitions on the drive have gone bad... Madison

Either the drive had a hardware OR the superblock is toast. It doesnt seem likely to be both.

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From your description, it appears that the drive is functioning, but the superblock is gone. Is that correct?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Madison Kelly" <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> To: <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 12:23 AM Subject: [TLUG]: Data recovery emergency on a downed server... Help please!!

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Hi everyone,

Well, the fact that I am posting this after 12:00am Sunday night (and on my birthday, to-boot!) should indicate just how dire the situation is... I have had a drive failure on a server and I can no longer mount the data partition on the hard drive (/dev/hda5 [ext3 under RH7.3]) because the replacement server (Fedora Core 1) claims that the drive's superblock is toast.

Now, before anyone rips me a new one, I -DO- have a tape drive but that, too, has rather depressingly failed. When I try to recover the files from the IDE Travan 8GB drive it successdully recovers about 50 files and then fails with this...

-= Begin Error =- [root-9CO/sRhIDOA at public.gmane.org tape]# tar zxvf /dev/ht0 . [bunch-of-files] . home/OldC/Program Files/Common Files/Symantec Shared/VirusDefs/19970902.001/navex15.exp home/OldC/Program Files/Common Files/Symantec Shared/VirusDefs/19970902.001/navex15.sys home/OldC/Program Files/Common Files/Symantec Shared/VirusDefs/19970902.001/NAVEX15.VXD

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now [root-9CO/sRhIDOA at public.gmane.org tape]# -= End Error =-

This is true on three of the tapes I have tried to recover from. The data was backed up via this simple script:

-= Begin Script =- mt -f /dev/ht0 erase mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind tar zcvf /dev/ht0 /home/* -= End Script =-

I have been Googling for a while now with no success. If anyone has any clues, by all means -please- share them... Also, if anyone here can recommend (as a fall back) a data recovery house that won't balk at an ext3 partition, please forward contact info.

Thanks everyone (again!!!)

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