Harddisk problem

2007-04-11 Thread Taavi Tänavsuu
Hi, Got a brand new Samsung 250 GB IDE harddisk, added it to my home PC running FreeBSD 5.3, created FreeBSD filesystem there. I have been using it for several months, keeping relatively large (5-10 GB) home video files there, and it has been working fine. But now suddenly got the following

Re: Harddisk problem

2007-04-11 Thread Ivan Carey
Taavi Tänavsuu wrote: Hi, Got a brand new Samsung 250 GB IDE harddisk, added it to my home PC running FreeBSD 5.3, created FreeBSD filesystem there. I have been using it for several months, keeping relatively large (5-10 GB) home video files there, and it has been working fine. But now

Re: Harddisk problem

2007-04-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Taavi Tänavsuu wrote: I'm not yet very familiar with harddisks, filesystems, and FreeBSD, but is there anything else i could try to make the disk usable again, or is it somehow physically damaged? There are two possibilities: 1) The disk is damaged. From your output that's what I'd

Re: harddisk problem in the 5.x series

2005-04-29 Thread zoltan sandor
Hi, Thanks for your mail. Yes I tried again with 4.11 and it still works without the error messages. It does not really matter, because it works in 5.4 too. I just have to live with the error messages I guess. Thnaks anyway Zoltan --- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: zoltan sandor

Re: harddisk problem in the 5.x series

2005-04-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
zoltan sandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the following problem. I moved my system from FreeBSD 4.11 to 5.4-RC3 by reinstalling everything. The 4.11 system had no problem finding my MAXTOR hard disk as ad3 as slave on the secondary IDE behind the CDROM. The new 5.4 system indicates a

harddisk problem in the 5.x series

2005-04-26 Thread zoltan sandor
Hi everybody! I have the following problem. I moved my system from FreeBSD 4.11 to 5.4-RC3 by reinstalling everything. The 4.11 system had no problem finding my MAXTOR hard disk as ad3 as slave on the secondary IDE behind the CDROM. The new 5.4 system indicates a lot of errors, but finally accepts

harddisk problem and/or fsck problem?

2004-03-26 Thread Richard Dawes
Greetings, fellow FreeBSD users! Everything so far works fine for me, until I drop into single- user mode to prep for making world. Even then, it seems OK, except for this alarming output of fsck -p: /dev/da0s1a: NO WRITE ACCESS /dev/da0s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. I run

Re: harddisk problem and/or fsck problem?

2004-03-26 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 26 March 2004 10:06 am, Richard Dawes wrote: Greetings, fellow FreeBSD users! Everything so far works fine for me, until I drop into single- user mode to prep for making world. Even then, it seems OK, except for this alarming output of fsck -p: Well, you missed reading something

Re: harddisk problem and/or fsck problem?

2004-03-26 Thread Richard Dawes
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:55:06AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: On Friday 26 March 2004 10:06 am, Richard Dawes wrote: Greetings, fellow FreeBSD users! Everything so far works fine for me, until I drop into single- user mode to prep for making world. Even then, it seems OK, except for

Re: harddisk problem and/or fsck problem?

2004-03-26 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 26 March 2004 01:02 pm, Richard Dawes wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:55:06AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: On Friday 26 March 2004 10:06 am, Richard Dawes wrote: Greetings, fellow FreeBSD users! Everything so far works fine for me, until I drop into single- user mode to

Re: harddisk problem and/or fsck problem?

2004-03-26 Thread Richard Dawes
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:09:35PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: The sequence that is designed to keep your out of trouble is buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, boot -s, and installworld, followed by a mergemaster. There are times as the statfs change to current that would render your