[TriLUG] Drive recovery services

[Wes Garrison]

Thanks Matt.  I tried SpinRite and ended up asking for a refund.

Steve Gibson hasn't updated the program in 10 years (he's been talking
about "version 6.1" for at least 4 years).

It doesn't play well with > 2TiB drives.  It only seems to recognize the
first 801GiB of the disk, which seems consistent with a 32-bit addressing
problem.  32-bits can address 2.2Tib.  3Tib - 2.2Tib = ~801Gib.

If you have any tricks to get it to work with large drives, I'd be open to
them.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Matt Whitlow <
matt.church.whitlow at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
>
> You have to pull the drives out of the raid controller and run it in a
> separate machine, the controller doesn't give low enough access to the
> drive. Spin-rite has recoved drives for me in the past start with a level
> 2.
> On Oct 13, 2014 10:45 AM, "Wes Garrison" <wes at xitechusa.com> wrote:
>
> > I just had 3 simultaneous failures on my ZFS pool with raidz2. (2
> failures
> > = OK, 3=bad.)
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a good drive recovery service (that's less than
> > $1000).
> >
> > 1 of the disk developed 60,000 bad sectors in a 4 week period since the
> > last time I checked it and it had 0.
> >
> > However, the other 2 both had 0 bad sectors and then stopped being
> > accessible with no warning.
> >
> > This makes me believe the data is still there on these 2 drives.
> >
> > I think if I can get a sector-by-sector copy of one of them, I can
> resilver
> > (rebuild) my array.
> >
> > What do you folks think?
> >
> > -Wes
> >
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