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Submission + - Recovering a drive on the cheap

Submitted by kantos on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @09:01AM

kantos writes: I have a hard drive that that as best I can tell is a brick... I figured that I would ask slashdot before I turned the platters into sun catchers for my patio.

The drive in question is a WD1000BB-00CAA0 and this is what shows up in syslog on boot: Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 115.982684] ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 115.982691] ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 115.982706] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00: 00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 115.982710] res 51/10:08:00:00:00/00: 00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x81 (invalid argument) Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 115.982717] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 115.982723] ata1.00: error: { IDNF } Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.041376] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.041407] ata1: EH complete Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.042651] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.042658] ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.042665] ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.042680] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00: 00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.042684] res 51/10:08:00:00:00/00: 00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x81 (invalid argument) Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.042691] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.042697] ata1.00: error: { IDNF } Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.102657] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.102687] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte =DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.102696] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Abor ted Command [current] [descriptor] Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.102707] Descriptor sense data with sense d escriptors (in hex): Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.102712] 72 0b 14 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.102735] 00 00 00 00 Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.102744] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Reco rded entity not found Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.102754] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 2 8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.102774] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, s ector 0 Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.102784] Buffer I/O error on device sda, lo gical block 0 Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.102843] ata1: EH complete Feb 2 05:54:56 Jester kernel: [ 116.166764] type=1400 audit(1296651296.883:23)

So slashdot.... is this drive beyond all hope other than a data recovery specialists jig, or is there some way I can get at least something off this drive?

Submission + - Sony's New root kit in FW 3.56 (psx-scene.com)

Submitted by JonChance on Sunday January 30, 2011 @12:03PM

JonChance writes: Vagabundo posts:
Apparently, examination of the OFW has found a new feature that will allow Sony to download and run code when you login to PSN. The code they can run is obviously to check for CFW or whatever, but the code could change to check for anything really.

And with the current state of PS3 security there is the possibility that others might be able to run their code on your PS3 without your knowledge.

I don't run CFW and I'm pretty pissed about this. What they are doing might be illegal in the EU.

Feed Engadget: Android Honeycomb port for Nook Color gets graphics acceleration, first demo vid (engadget.com)

From feed by feedfeeder on Sunday January 30, 2011 @09:12AM

Can't wait until February 2nd to see more of Android 3.0 in action? That's not a problem, as today we've got a whole 129 seconds of video showing Google's latest mobile software doing its thing on the Nook Color. The OS was ported to B&N's tablet on Friday, when we were promised further work would be taking place over the weekend to enable hardware acceleration of the GUI, and what do you know, that goal has been achieved with plenty of Sunday to spare! Most core functionality is still not available, but the delicious Honeycomb interface is very much in effect. Jump past the break for the eye candy feast.

[Thanks, Jules]

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Submission + - FCC Wants Net Neutrality Suits Stopped

Submitted by adeelarshad82 on Saturday January 29, 2011 @10:34PM

adeelarshad82 writes: The FCC moved to dismiss the net neutraliy challenges filed by MetroPCS and Verizon, claiming they were "filed prematurely." Verizon and MetroPCS have both sued the FCC, arguing that the commission did not have the authority to hand down its December net neutrality rules. The FCC maintains that it does indeed have the right to regulate broadband, thanks to provisions in the Communications Act.

Comment For me.... (Score 1) 1

by kantos on Friday January 07, 2011 @08:46AM (#34789694) Attached to: Poll: How do you like your data formatted?

I frequently use C#/.NET as such XML is the fastest and easiest for me. However I'm a firm believer in using what's best for the project, however I shy away from proprietary formats because they are hard to recover data from later.

Submission + - R.I.P. Bill Zeller (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by kantos on Friday January 07, 2011 @08:43AM

kantos writes: Bill Zeller a programmer who on many occasions contributed to Gawker media sites Gizmodo and Lifehacker, took his life two days ago. His last agonizing words can be found HERE

Comment Re:Again? (Score 1) 214

by kantos on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @07:30AM (#34763626) Attached to: 45 Years Later, Does Moore's Law Still Hold True?

no.... but there should be one about mis-quotes... like the one in the original post, moore's law is about the performance per PRICE point not about performance

Submission + - Microsoft Research takes on Go (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk on Friday December 31, 2010 @06:44AM

mikejuk writes: Microsoft Research has used F# and AI to implement a consumer-quality game of Go — arguably the most difficult two-person game to implement.
They have used an interesting approach to the problem of playing the game which is a pragmatic cross between tree search with pruning and machine learning
to spot moves with a "good shape". The whole lot has been packaged into an XNA based 3D story based game.

Comment Re:Anyone who asks this question should not be in (Score 1) 450

by kantos on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @10:19AM (#34697964) Attached to: Thin Client, Or Fat Client? That Is the Question

Using thin clients in an enterprise or small to medium business environment gives you a lot of benefits to the long term bottom line. From a security perspective, you cut the "attack surface" of your network very sharply - from dozens if not hundreds or even thousands of desktops that each need antivirus, security updates, administration, and security monitoring, down to a handful of servers that you can lock down pretty tightly. From a support perspective, you are no longer managing all those desktops, you are now managing a handful of servers.

BULLSHIT From that statement alone I can only surmise that you have never ever worked in IT, the client is ALWAYS part of the equation, a thin client still has firmware and connectivity issues. Not to mention that rolling out any sort of network upgrade goes from being a minor project, to a critical time sensitive operation. Furthermore there is some benefit to having the infrastructure distributed, if your central server fails (and it will) then you're entire company can continue to work locally while you repair or rebuild.

Now, once you've gotten your THICK client computer, running your THIN client setup (wait... is it Windows 7? Is that thin client possible? Or is it "thin" client possible?).

Technically with Windows 7 enterprise you can set up a client to boot from a VHD (I have seen this implemented as this is how Windows deployment services works), and in-fact to use network licenses of software(office etc.) however I've never actually seen this implemented. That said you could in theory go for a medium client? if that is a term? where the software is run locally but is based on network licenses. Personally I wouldn't want to try it, but that's me

Comment Re:Terrible, terrible and juvenile summary. (Score 1) 305

by kantos on Friday December 24, 2010 @10:33AM (#34659694) Attached to: New IE Zero Day

and now the obligatory link to college humor: browsers and the modes of transportation they resemble

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 245

by kantos on Friday December 17, 2010 @06:37AM (#34585436) Attached to: Microsoft Is Releasing an H.264 Plugin For Firefox

I had a friend that worked at MS... he said that the most common browser there wasn't IE... but firefox. So to me this is really the MS devs being selfish and wanting firefox to support h.264 content for HTML 5

Comment Re:Send the wah-mbulance. (Score 1) 481

by kantos on Thursday December 16, 2010 @08:55AM (#34572318) Attached to: Netflix Touts Open Source, Ignores Linux

There is one and ONLY one reason the DRM code wasn't released to Mono, and that reason is called the MPAA. The MPAA is scared shitless of linux and open source, which is why both the flash and silverlight DRM modules have never been released. So if you want to complain complain about that.

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 2) 275

by kantos on Saturday December 11, 2010 @12:03PM (#34523500) Attached to: Protect Your Pre-1997 IP Address

I talked to the IT department at my company recently about this... all of our infrastructure supports IPv6... only one little bit that doesn't... our upstream provider... so until ViaWest gets their act together... we won't have IPv6.

Comment Re:the internet a fuedal domain (Score 1) 275

by kantos on Saturday December 11, 2010 @11:58AM (#34523474) Attached to: Protect Your Pre-1997 IP Address

oh I know... but it's fun to make fun of it this way... since it is very superficially identical to the feudal land-granting system

Comment the internet a fuedal domain (Score 0) 275

by kantos on Saturday December 11, 2010 @11:45AM (#34523376) Attached to: Protect Your Pre-1997 IP Address

... Where IANA is the king and owns all of the IP space... granting it to its dukes (RIRs).. who in-turn grant plots to the earls (ISPs) .... who inturn grant blocks to everybody else...

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