I need a mathematician

[bwana]

If you are not worried about the data just RMA the drive it.

RMA?

 

[koffiejunkie]

Return Material Authorization, i.e. send it back. Of course, I don't think the Seagate warranty covers the drive getting hit by a cricket ball

 

[bwana]

Ah, ok.

I've managed to mount the drive so maybe all isnt lost. The ditto command should skip all the damaged files and copy all the rest right? To save space on time machine I had it ignore my mp3 collection.

One thing is for sure - come Friday I'm packing my hackintosh netbook in the car just in case.

 

[za1]

So I'm working at the cricket today, snapping away, uploading the images as I go when some inconsiderate Titan decides to hit one for six and where does the ball land? Of course, on my laptop.

My DIY sunshield took the brunt of the impact, and the laptop itself is absolutely fine, but the sudden jolt borked my hdd.

So mathematicians - What are the odds?

the odds of a Titan hitting a six....that is indeed rare, hope you caught it on camera.

 

[ponder]

Of course, I don't think the Seagate warranty covers the drive getting hit by a cricket ball

What they don't know won't hurt them

I've managed to mount the drive so maybe all isnt lost. The ditto command should skip all the damaged files and copy all the rest right? To save space on time machine I had it ignore my mp3 collection.

If you can mount the drive then image it with GNU ddrescue, it will skip bad parts and you can do multiple passes. Once you have the image file you can mount that and extract your data at leisure, don't forget the logfile. Dunno how much spare space you have on another drive though.

First you copy as much data as possible, without retrying or splitting sectors:
ddrescue --no-split /dev/hda1 imagefile logfile

Now let it retry previous errors 3 times, using uncached reads:
ddrescue --direct --max-retries=3 /dev/hda1 imagefile logfile

If that fails you can try again but retrimmed, so it tries to reread full sectors:
ddrescue --direct --retrim --max-retries=3 /dev/hda1 imagefile logfile

 

[bwana]

If you can mount the drive then image it with GNU ddrescue, it will skip bad parts and you can do multiple passes. Once you have the image file you can mount that and extract your data at leisure, don't forget the logfile. Dunno how much spare space you have on another drive though.

Thanks but that wont be necessary. I backed up before I went out for the day.

What I'm not certain of is how reliable the drive is anymore. Better to be safe than sorry I suppose.

 

[koffiejunkie]

What I'm not certain of is how reliable the drive is anymore. Better to be safe than sorry I suppose.

If it didn't keep all its bits in the right places through the incident, then it's not 100% anymore.

 

[waynegohl]

the odds were 1 in 6 if my abacus is correct.

 

[ponder]

What I'm not certain of is how reliable the drive is anymore. Better to be safe than sorry I suppose.

Check it for bad sectors etc and also see if SMART reports anything out of the ordinary. It could be ok or it could have sustained some damage.

 

[bwana]

Cricket again tonight so I'm packing a hackintosh as well as my macbook pro tonight just in case . . .

 

[shogun]

So mathematicians - What are the odds?

obviously pretty good

 

[hawker]

obviously pretty good

Not really.

I think the odds of something like that happening are really really tiny.

Bwana was just seriously unlucky (or lucky depending on how you see it.)

 

[satanboy]

watch the ball next time...

 

[bwana]

I was, through the lens

 

[MickeyD]

The odds are, obviously, astronomical. If I was a bookmaker I'd give you a 1 000 000 to 1 !!!

But then again... I put a ball through a car's windscreen at the Old Grey 6-a-side and it was parked quite far away. Before they built their artificial surface hockey field, the pitch was more to the centre of the park and there was plenty of parking around the ground. Strangely enough it was safer to park in the first row cars closest to the field than further away from the field!!