[TriLUG] Drive recovery services

[Matt Whitlow]

I don't offhand but I know 6.1 should address it I don't mind waiting since
it's one person writing it.
On Oct 13, 2014 11:28 AM, "Wes Garrison" <wes at xitechusa.com> wrote:

> 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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