Re: Ideas To Save Failing System?

2003-09-18 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: "Lowell Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 1:32 AM Subject: Re: Ideas To Save Failing System?

Re: Ideas To Save Failing System?

2003-09-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Drew Tomlinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there anything I can do to save this machine? I'm afraid if I power it > off, the disk will be corrupt and it probably won't boot. I'd really like > to make a backup and then replace the disk. Any ideas? If you *don't* power it down, you should

Ideas To Save Failing System?

2003-09-14 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have system running 4.8 that seems to be losing a hard drive. I have many entries such as these in /var/log/messages: Sep 14 17:44:43 blacksheep /kernel: ad0s1a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 131265 of 65600-65615 (ad0s1 bn 131265; cn 10 tn 93 sn 36) status=51 error=ff Sep 14 17:44:43 blackshee