SpinRite: Last Half
Just bringing closure to my little experiment with SpinRite and a nasty looking 120GB drive. After watching SpinRite grind through a single sector for something like 10 days, I noted its spot and stopped it. After fussing around a bit with SpinRite and level 1 (which doesn’t mark problems permanently), I decided to restart it at just beyond the problem area and let it go on at level 2 over the long Labor Day weekend. As you can see from the screen photo above, it finished the last half (really about 43%) in 41 hours and 25 minutes. You can see that the second half of the drive was in pretty bad shape too though it did manage to recover 3 spots. I’m planning to reboot the drive to see what happened to the Linux system on the drive after going through this long SpinRite repair process. The drive should obviously be put out to pasture. But, I’ll keep it around the office in case I need to show anyone what a bad drive looks like in SpinRite.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:50 am
There are command line options, I think the default is 2000 retries on the same sector. see this:
Data Recovery“Aggression” ControlThough the DynaStat Data Recovery system is stunninglypowerful, SpinRite 3.1 users commented that it frequently“took forever” when the drive being worked on (a diskette forexample) contained data that just wasn’t that precious.SpinRite introduces the new command line option:DYNASTAT nWhere ncan be any number from 0 through 1000 and is thepercentage of the normal Dynastat recovery strength. Forexample, if you desire 25% of the normal recovery strength,you would add the command line parameter:DYNASTAT 25