So I was trying to properly install a new 200G WD HDD on a Highpoint controller and wasn't having any luck, so I figured I might as well try getting the USB2 Enclosure working with the machine too while I was at it (also a 200G drive, but formatted for NTFS), connecting the drive and going back to seeing where I might have the highpoint controller recognized I forgot all about the USB drive --- bad mistake.
I went into the /stand/sysinstall under fdisk and saw I had a 200G drive there, "Oh, I must have done something to enable the HighPoint controller" I said .. let's edit it .. "Strange, it's reporting NTFS/QNX/.. did I get a drive with something on it ?" I was unable to mount the drive with NTFS (it wasn't in my kernel) so I just said forget it and tried to fdisk, it tossed a warning about doing the fdisk separately from the disklabel, so I said, ok , I'll wait.. and went off to do the disklabel at the same time. at which point on trying to disklabel the disc I believe the disklabel wrote out (improperly) and then crashed the PC -- at which point I realized my mistake. I don't think that the full write even started because it was a hard crash and occurred very soon after I executed the command, I don't have the debug screen that appeared afterward, it was a kernel panic. This is the USB2 device:: Aug 7 12:14:14 Crappy login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0 Aug 7 12:14:25 Crappy /kernel: umass0: Cypress Semiconductor USB2.0 Storage Device, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 Aug 7 12:14:25 Crappy /kernel: umass0: Get Max Lun not supported (STALLED) Aug 7 12:14:32 Crappy /kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Aug 7 12:14:32 Crappy /kernel: da0: <WDC WD20 00JB-00FUA0 \0000\0000> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device Aug 7 12:14:32 Crappy /kernel: da0: 650KB/s transfers Aug 7 12:14:32 Crappy /kernel: da0: 190782MB (390721968 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 59710C) Initially I attempted to just read the disklabel, but it threw a "bad pack magic number". So I tried to edit it with disklabel -e , I changed nothing, but it seems the disklabel was written when I left the editor regardless.... Disklabel commands: ************ [Crappy]:log% disklabel -r /dev/da0 disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled) [Crappy]:log% disklabel /dev/da0 # /dev/da0: type: SCSI disk: WDC WD20 label: 00JB-00FUA0 flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 24321 sectors/unit: 390721968 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 390721968 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 24321*) *************** I know it's a 7200 RPM drive, with an 8MB cache and 200G of physical space ( ~ 186GB after formatting in NTFS), the Western Digital Special Edition 200G drive. I want to restore my data, but I am scared to change the disklabel at the thought of losing the 150+G of data that is on the drive. Can anyone PLEASE provide details on how I might be able to restore my data, right now I can't mount it anywhere? Any help is appreciated. Thank you, Bryant Eadon Dual Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering Major Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Lambda Chi Alpha EH1063 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
