Re: HD problems after power outage
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:36:21PM -0600, backdoc wrote: I lost power at my house for a moment this morning which is causing some problems with my second hard drive. [ fsck tale of woe...] I try to rerun fsck, but this pattern only repeats. Is there a way to fix this?? Or, am I toast? Toasted to a nice golden brown on both sides. You've had a head crash on that second drive, which has created a scratch right across a number of disk sectors. Time to chuck that disk in the bin and restore your backups[1] onto a new one. Cheers, Matthew [1] You *do* have backups, don't you? -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: HD problems after power outage
With all the events of September 11th, one would think we'd have learned about backups by now :) -- Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Seaman Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 5:09 PM To: backdoc Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HD problems after power outage On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:36:21PM -0600, backdoc wrote: I lost power at my house for a moment this morning which is causing some problems with my second hard drive. [ fsck tale of woe...] I try to rerun fsck, but this pattern only repeats. Is there a way to fix this?? Or, am I toast? Toasted to a nice golden brown on both sides. You've had a head crash on that second drive, which has created a scratch right across a number of disk sectors. Time to chuck that disk in the bin and restore your backups[1] onto a new one. Cheers, Matthew [1] You *do* have backups, don't you? -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HD problems after power outage
A Slow down there, Fast Eddie :). I got it working!!! Basically, I repeated this process about 10 times: o boot -s o fsck /dev/da1s1e (which failed every time) o reboot o ran adaptec utility o repeat Finally, I tried: o boot -s o fsck -p (bingo!!) o mount -u / o mount -a Then, I did mount to see what was mounted. Everything was mounted. Life is good again. I didn't completely give up because I was able to mount the drive with errors and see the contents. I had given up hope of salvaging the drive, but not of recovering the data[1]. Perseverence paid off. The dumb part in all of this was that my freebsd-questions subscriber address is hosted on the FreeBSD box that was down. So, I couldn't get replies to my request for help until I had already gotten my box back up. Thanks for your attempt to help me. I do appreciate it. Darren [1] No. I don't have a backups. I guess I like living on the edge :). Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:36:21PM -0600, backdoc wrote: I lost power at my house for a moment this morning which is causing some problems with my second hard drive. [ fsck tale of woe...] I try to rerun fsck, but this pattern only repeats. Is there a way to fix this?? Or, am I toast? Toasted to a nice golden brown on both sides. You've had a head crash on that second drive, which has created a scratch right across a number of disk sectors. Time to chuck that disk in the bin and restore your backups[1] onto a new one. Cheers, Matthew [1] You *do* have backups, don't you? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
