[lawnmowerdeth]

Hi,
At the request of tivoupgrade, I'm posting this here.
I'm trying to rescue an HDVR2 drive with the beta CD of PTVupgrade, and I'm having some problems with dd_rescue.
I can't use the -B switch or the -A switch (unknown command error), and -b 2M gives a segmentation fault. Basically I am only able to use:
dd_rescue -v /dev/hda /dev/hdb.
I'm trying it with dd_rescue -v -b 2048 /dev/hda /dev/hdb, hopefully that will increase the speed a bit. (Is that the same as -b 2M?)

Anyway, fingers crossed that this will save the drive. Hopefully tomorrow afternoon sometime I'll be able to post results.

Sean

 

[lawnmowerdeth]

Thought I'd give an update. Even with the problems with the command options, the dd_rescue worked fine, with all recordings intact.

Now here's the freaky part: Afterward, the MFSinfo command resulted in this:

Primary volume header corrupt, trying backup.
Secondary volume header corrupt, giving up.
mfs_load_volume_header: bad checksum
segmentation fault.

So I was just assuming it wasn't going to boot at all again. But somehow it did! Something on my failing drive must have been really messed up.

Sean