Over the weekend I installed a 6 G Quantum IDE HD as added space on my SCSI server. I had no problem. I then moved about 2 G of digital photos to it and deleted them from the original space. A mistake.
Later, I attempted to move about a gig of pix from the laptop to this server through a wireless connection. Performance plunged, and I closed the connection abruptly and rebooted the server. Several of these steps are now obvious mistakes. The server now refuses to come up with this HD on line. It gives a message that there is a I/O buffer failure on /dev/hdd (the "new" drive) while loading init, and refuses to boot past that, even when the drive is removed from /etc/fstab and the BIOS. I have to take power off the drive to boot up. Then everything is OK, except my photos are gone. Most of the photos are archived to CDs, but about three months of 2005 pix are on that drive or nowhere. Obviously, I'd like to recover them. Here are my thoughts. I figure if I can somehow boot with that drive running, then I can use rescue mode to try to mount it and copy the lost stuff to safety. So what is recommended? I plan to try (in this order) 1. Knoppix 2. Fedora core 3 install in rescue 3. Fedora core 3 install in install mode, repartition the disk as before (all one partition), and not format. Remarks or advice? -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
