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From: Folkert Rienstra on 17 Jan 2006 11:08 "Chris Lewis" <clewis(a)nortelnetworks.com> wrote in message news:11sotrss7pvgrd9(a)corp.supernews.com > According to Folkert Rienstra folkertxxxxrienstra(a)wanadoo.nl: Please, do not use Reply-To addresses in attribution lines. Get a decent newsclient, or change your attribution line, like everyone else. > > "Chris Lewis" <clewis(a)nortelnetworks.com> wrote in message news:11so3btnaaadg1b(a)corp.supernews.com > > > According to mm <NOPSAMmm2005(a)bigfoot.com>: > > > > My drive is clicking, and one important partition has a very bad > > > > directory structure. I'm not sure I can copy over even the good > > > > partitions before it "fails". If I open it, what would I want to do > > > > to stop the clicking, or to keep the clicking syndrome from preventing > > > > me from copying the data to a good drive. > > > > The best way to ensure that you can copy over the good partitions > > > is to _not_ open the drive first. > > > > The safest way is to image copy the whole drive to a new drive. Put > > > the old drive in a safe place, and try to repair the new drive's > > > directory structure. Preferably doing a backup of the image you copied > > > to the new drive before you diddle it, so you can start over _without_ > > > touching the old drive. > > > > The clicking is most likely retries > > > > (ie: gouged media, weak magnetics). > > > Just any unrecoverable read error (which isn't necessarily a physical one, > > it can just be a bad write, ie a logical error). > > > > You _can't_ fix that. > > > Yes you _can_, for the logical bad blocks. > > Not by opening the drive... About the only thing that someone that > doesn't have major equipment can accomplish by opening it up is to > replace the drive electronics. Some of our support people are quite > good at resurrecting drives by swapping the electronics (they keep > electronics sets from head-crashed drives). > But the OPs problem is not the electronics. Who says. > > Perhaps most of these types of failures (drive clicking - retries) > can be "fixed" by causing the drive to write on the bad blocks, and > then doing a fixdisk or equivalent. I'm familiar with somewhat > older gear under UNIX, where you take the sector number from the error > messages and use "dd" or write a small program to write a single > block over the bad sector. Then run the file system repair utilities > (ie: fsck) to clear/reclaim it. > > These days with smarter controllers, they sometimes automatically > self-repair (spare out the bad sector), Only if the sector is readable with retries. Unrecoverable read error bad sectors are only reallocated on writes. > or a simple low-level reformat of the drive will fix or spare it out. > You might find a suitable procedure on the manufacturer's web site.
From: Folkert Rienstra on 17 Jan 2006 11:10 "Doug Miller" <spambait(a)milmac.com> wrote in message news:mQ5zf.11404$F_3.7639(a)newssvr29.news.prodigy.net > In article <43cbe2ed$0$19285$892e7fe2(a)authen.yellow.readfreenews.net>, "Folkert Rienstra" <obscured> wrote: And another idiot with a broken newsclient showing Reply-To addresses. > > "Doug Miller" spambait(a)milmac.com> wrote in message news:ycNyf.9916$dW3.437(a)newssvr21.news.prodigy.com > > > In article <MtMyf.156727$Ph4.4760299(a)ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>, "Handi" <handi_ca(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'd dare to guess that if this fellow doesn't recognize a Torx screw > > > > that he isn't aware that he should never open a hard drive. > > > > > > I guess you can't recognize one either. :-) > > > > The same to you. > > Try again. > > > > > What he has is not a Torx screw. > > > > Yes it is, as someone else showed from the Wiha page. > > No, it's not. This is a five-pointed star. Torx screws have six points. And the 5 pointed star is a Torx too. There is no such thing as *the* "torx" screw.
From: Folkert Rienstra on 17 Jan 2006 11:11 "chrisv" <chrisv(a)nospam.invalid> wrote in message news:1oups1dlq9mg7nsvev3clvairqhq7ohmu0(a)4ax.com > Rita ? Berkowitz wrote: > > > To avoid this problem in the future > > Ignore the SCSI troll. It was, until you gave it attention.
From: Joshua Putnam on 17 Jan 2006 12:58 In article <L44zf.13116$Zo.11468(a)trnddc07>, drhardcrab(a)hotmail.SPAMcom says... > > "John McGaw" <nobody(a)nowh.ere> wrote > > > > If you want to buy Torx Plus tools you must, in theory anyway, be a > > legitimate user as defined by Textron although if you know anyone who > > works with them they should be pretty easily obtained at the cost of a > > case of beer. ;-) > > > http://www.stanleysupplyservices.com/product-group.aspx?id=7957 Doesn't appear to include 5-pointed Torx, only 6-pointed. -- josh(a)phred.org is Joshua Putnam <http://www.phred.org/~josh/> Books for Bicycle Mechanics and Tinkerers: <http://www.phred.org/~josh/bike/bikebooks.html>
From: Chris Lewis on 17 Jan 2006 13:40
According to Folkert Rienstra <folkertdsahrienstra(a)wanadoo.nl>: > "Chris Lewis" <clewis(a)nortelnetworks.com> wrote in message news:11sotrss7pvgrd9(a)corp.supernews.com > > According to Folkert Rienstra folkertxxxxrienstra(a)wanadoo.nl: > Please, do not use Reply-To addresses in attribution lines. Get a decent newsclient, or change > your attribution line, like everyone else. I assure you, trn 4 is a decent news reader, and substituting in the Reply-To for From: is actually the right thing to do if the attribution line is to have anything in it resembling the followup'd to user's address. Spammers aren't stupid enough to ignore Reply-To headers - in fact, smart ones would be scraping them in _preference_ to From: headers. And those that scrape the whole message (which is why you're worried about my attribution, right?) will scrape the reply-to _too_. So, you're shooting yourself in the foot far more than the occasional followup from someone using reasonable newsreader attribution defaults like me. If you want to avoid Usenet scrapers, you need to not mention your real email address AT ALL, or munge it. Eg: "folkertdashrienstra (at) wanadoo.nl", or "folkerspamtdashrienstra(a)wanadoo.nl". Reply-To is not a useful approach for evading Usenet email address scrapers. If you don't want to get it scraped, _don't_ imagine that Reply-To will hide it. -- Chris Lewis, Una confibula non set est It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them. |