Re: RAED_DMA timed out crap

2005-08-07 Thread kalin mintchev

good advices...  didn't know about the atacontrol   thank you all...


> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
>
>> can i just hook up a laptop hdd in a desktop machine?
>
> Yes, with a 40-to-44-pin IDE adapter.  The pins on a 2.5-inch laptop
> drive are spaced closer together than on a 3.5-inch drive.
>
> Before doing that, though, it's worth downloading a copy of the FreeSBIE
> CD and booting with that:
>
> http://www.freesbie.org/
>
> Even if you can't mount the hard drive, you at least ought to be able to
> dd data from it.
>
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
>


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Re: RAED_DMA timed out crap

2005-08-07 Thread Warren Block

On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:


can i just hook up a laptop hdd in a desktop machine?


Yes, with a 40-to-44-pin IDE adapter.  The pins on a 2.5-inch laptop 
drive are spaced closer together than on a 3.5-inch drive.


Before doing that, though, it's worth downloading a copy of the FreeSBIE 
CD and booting with that:


http://www.freesbie.org/

Even if you can't mount the hard drive, you at least ought to be able to 
dd data from it.


-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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Re: RAED_DMA timed out crap

2005-08-07 Thread kalin mintchev

> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
>
>> yea..  that was my thought too but it's only one drive and i can't get
>> it
>> to boot all the way. and it's a laptop.
>>
>> is there a way to mount remotely a laptop hdd?
>
> Other than mounting the drive on another machine to see how much you can
> read, not much else I can suggest.
>

can i just hook up a laptop hdd in a desktop machine?


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Re: RAED_DMA timed out crap

2005-08-07 Thread Francisco Reyes

On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:



can i just hook up a laptop hdd in a desktop machine?


No. Another poster sent you comments on that. You need to get a Kit. 
Should not cost much though. Basically some mounting brackets and a 
cable... although for your case probably just the cable and you can do the 
work with the case open and the drive on the side. May also need some type 
of power convertor.


I have never done it, but I am aware there are kits for it...
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Re: RAED_DMA timed out crap

2005-08-07 Thread Francisco Reyes

On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:


yea..  that was my thought too but it's only one drive and i can't get it
to boot all the way. and it's a laptop.

is there a way to mount remotely a laptop hdd?


Other than mounting the drive on another machine to see how much you can 
read, not much else I can suggest.

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Re: RAED_DMA timed out crap

2005-08-07 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:

> >> fsck stops randomly with stuff like:
> >> CANNOT READ BLOCK: 
> >> evry time is different number and eventually i get:
> >> ad0: WARNING - removed from configuration
> >> ata0-master: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out
> >
> > Sounds like the HD may be near a fatal crash.
> > I suggest you backup as much as you can.
>
> yea..  that was my thought too but it's only one drive and i can't get it
> to boot all the way. and it's a laptop.
>
> is there a way to mount remotely a laptop hdd?

I just had to recover from that problem last week, also on a
laptop drive.

First, have you tried booting in single user? mount all drives
read only, and use atacontrol to slow down the drive like this:

  # atacontrol mode 0 udma33 pio4

this may solve some problem. Run fsck -yf on all disks. Try
editing fstab so drives are mounted read only, you can avoid
mounting /var and /tmp and use memory disks for these by setting
varmfs=yes in rc.conf.

This may help you rescue your data while on the laptop.

Another option is to buy a converter cable that lets you connect a
laptop drive to a standard IDE port, if you have an ordinary
station available.

Cheers, Erik

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Re: RAED_DMA timed out crap

2005-08-07 Thread kalin mintchev

> On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
>
>> fsck stops randomly with stuff like:
>> CANNOT READ BLOCK: 
>> evry time is different number and eventually i get:
>> ad0: WARNING - removed from configuration
>> ata0-master: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out
>
> Sounds like the HD may be near a fatal crash.
> I suggest you backup as much as you can.

yea..  that was my thought too but it's only one drive and i can't get it
to boot all the way. and it's a laptop.

is there a way to mount remotely a laptop hdd?

thanks...



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Re: RAED_DMA timed out crap

2005-08-06 Thread Francisco

On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:


fsck stops randomly with stuff like:
CANNOT READ BLOCK: 
evry time is different number and eventually i get:
ad0: WARNING - removed from configuration
ata0-master: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out


Sounds like the HD may be near a fatal crash.
I suggest you backup as much as you can.
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