Well I suggest taking it to the temple .. Mr. Budha has his ways .. i will talk to him if u want .. i'm a recarnation of his soul :D
--- Saleh Odeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Did you try setting it on fire n dancing half naked > around it? hehe.. if > that didnt work.. i think i can look up a few other > rituals.. > > /me out > > > > > >hi guys, > > > > i'm trying to resurrect a failed hard disk and/or > filesystem, it seems > >i'm missing the partition table (ooooh i didn't > know that can be done!), > >question is would i find any backup copies around > on the hard disk > >(something like the redundant superblocks scattered > around)? > > > > here's what happened in details: > > > > i have an application running on an aging test pc > with a constant load of > >~18, it was fun watching the system barely handle > the load. it's a dual > >boot machine with windows xp and fc4. > > > > after two months the hard disk finally gave in > and the terminal kept > >spouting i/o sync errors. i forced sync and remount > in read only mode then > >an immediate reboot (Magic Sysrq + s/u/b). > > > > grub took a while to go past stage2, kernel and > initrd were loaded fine > >then after a while i got a "unable to read > /dev/hda" then it just hangs > >there! > > > > i booted knoppix, it had difficulties in scanning > the hard disk > >partitions, i tried fdisk -i i got nothing. i tried > fdisk /dev/hda i got > >"unable to open device". sfdisk -l /dev/hda reports > geometry errors and no > >partitions! > > > > my guess is that somehow the filesystem got > corrupt followed by the > >partition table, most probably a hardware failure. > > > > as i said it's a test machine so i wouldn't lose > much if i couldn't > >restore. i just like a good challenge, and the > whole thing has me stumped! > > > > any ideas could be useful to exorcise this drive, > thanx :-) > > > > > > > >--------------------------------- > >Yahoo! Photos Showcase holiday pictures in > hardcover > > Photo Books. You design it and well bind it! > > > >_______________________________________________ > >General mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://mail.jolug.org/mailman/listinfo/general_jolug.org > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.jolug.org/mailman/listinfo/general_jolug.org > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.jolug.org/mailman/listinfo/general_jolug.org
