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Can a hard drive be saved?
A home NAS running Ubuntu 14.04 has three drives: 60Gb, 1Tb and 2Tb. The biggest one stopped working.
At the same time, the BIOS sees it, but incorrectly determines the size. With lshw the situation is similar:
$ sudo lshw -c disk
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: ST2000DM001
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: [email protected]:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: CC25
serial: Z4Z3S9GV
size: 3950MiB (4142MB)
configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: Corsair Force 3
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: [email protected]:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdb
version: 3
serial: 12126504000013400820
size: 55GiB (60GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=000ea4a1
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: ST31000524AS
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: [email protected]:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdc
version: JC45
serial: 9VPBHDQP
size: 931GiB (1TB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=18837842
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 1815976 12 1815964 1% /dev
tmpfs 365684 968 364716 1% /run
/dev/sdb1 53823972 3830392 47236360 8% /
none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none 1828416 0 1828416 0% /run/shm
none 102400 0 102400 0% /run/user
/dev/sdc1 961302560 548608716 363839384 61% /media/archive
$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders, total 117231408 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000ea4a1
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 109635583 54816768 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 109637630 117229567 3795969 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 109637632 117229567 3795968 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
81 heads, 63 sectors/track, 382818 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x18837842
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 2048 1953525167 976761560 83 Linux
$ sudo fdisk -u /dev/sda
fdisk: unable to read /dev/sda: Input/output error
$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-4.4.0-57-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: ST2000DM001
Serial Number: Z4Z3S9GV
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 087240820
Firmware Version: CC25
User Capacity: 137 438 952 960 bytes [137 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s
Local Time is: Sat Jan 7 02:37:02 2017 +05
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Read SMART Data failed: scsi error badly formed scsi parameters
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: UNKNOWN!
SMART Status, Attributes and Thresholds cannot be read.
Read SMART Log Directory failed: scsi error badly formed scsi parameters
Read SMART Error Log failed: scsi error badly formed scsi parameters
Read SMART Self-test Log failed: scsi error badly formed scsi parameters
Selective Self-tests/Logging not supported
$ sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/stdout bs=128 count=2
dd: error reading ‘/dev/sda’: Input/output error
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0,743544 s, 0,0 kB/s
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