Hi everyone, Thanks to all who responded to my request for help. I tried the drive in three FreeBSD machines running 5, 6-stable and current. It brought all of them down hard, whether using dd, cpdup or other utilities. I can only conclude it was hardware locking things up. I could not find an external SATA enclosure to try, so I cannot report success or failure with that.
Fortunately I had a relatively recent backup and, after failing to image the partition, I took the risk of mounting the partition as is, without fsck'ing it. All the files that had been changed since the backup were on good parts of the disk, so I managed to get a complete copy back together in the end. The drive is on its way to that place where all old drives go..... my kids are pulling it apart with a screwdriver and pliers! Although they prefer to pull apart old keyboards! Thanks again, Greg _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
