Evening Trevor,
Philip,
Nice link there. Am trying to figure out how to go about......since the disk seems to have bad sectors. Even a fdisk -l gives io errors.
<snip> Disk having bad sector will give you fdisk -l information. In case if you are using HBA's or SCSI controller ( i.e. PERC 4/D ), you might get "Unable to get access to /dev/sd?". and purely 'cause of HBA's or SCSI controller.
fdisk -l only reads the gemotery information of the disk ( Which is not placed on the sector ( for data information ).
Regards, Animesh.
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