OK. One of my harddrives suddenly has "sector size 0"

[struggle4progress]

Any ideas?

Background. Well over a year ago, I installed Ubuntu as an OS on one of the harddrives on a multicore Mac. It was a mighty pain, that involved adventures with rEFIt and required several days to get right, and before I got it right I had temporarily borked some vital sector of something somewhere on another drive so that my machine was stuck in kernel panics and the DVD drive wouldn't work and I had to recover from my Time Machine backup using a copy of the installation media on a usb flash drive. I was pleased with the final results, because I could boot triple boot the machine and Ubuntu worked pretty well. Anyway, the hdd with ubuntu installed decided its sector size should be zero. I pulled the drive and replaced it with a larger new one, and I guess I'll slap it into one of my linux boxes to see if I can find anything critical on it that I need to save

[alfredo]

1. Googled it, there should be something out there.

This one link has a solution, but I don't know if it is your solution.

http://www.mycomputingart.com/hardware/z24.recover-sector-problem.html

[struggle4progress]

2. Thanks!