19 Oct
2012
19 Oct
'12
12:54 p.m.
On 18 October 2012 22:14, John Woodard mail@johnwoodard.co.uk wrote:
On 18 October 2012 20:18, Srdjan Todorovic todorovic.s@googlemail.com wrote:
sudo dd if=/dev/sda count=1 bs=512 | hexdump -s 446
I got this returned
xubuntu@xubuntu:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/sda count=1 bs=512 | hexdump -s 446 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.000170134 s, 0.0 kB/s
Does this mean I'm screwed?
In answering my own post yes it does. The disk although being reported to exist by lsscsi is not spinning up properly so the cost of getting any data back far out weighs what it worth to me. Thanks for your help folks.
cheers, BJ