From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 28 14:43:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26970 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:43:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from foobar.franken.de (foobar.franken.de [194.94.249.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26953 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:43:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from logix@foobar.franken.de) Received: (from logix@localhost) by foobar.franken.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id XAA00955; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:41:41 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19981028234141.A913@foobar.franken.de> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:41:41 +0100 From: Harold Gutch To: Mike Smith Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HD problems References: <19981028190005.A426@foobar.franken.de> <199810282006.MAA00390@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199810282006.MAA00390@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 12:06:17PM -0800 X-Organisation: BatmanSystemDistribution X-Mission: To free the world from the Penguin Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 12:06:17PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > Your disk is taking longer to handle the error than we allow it to. Your > best bet at this point is probably to mount the partition forced > readonly (mount -f -o ro), copy everything meaningful off the the > partition, then dd zeroes over it to give the drive a chance to remap > the sector(s) in question. > Is there an easy way to set the timeout-values higher, like patch a couple of lines in the wd-driver to at least give me enough time to backup the whole thing, and then nuke the data that currently still is on it ? I hope this idea isn't foredoomed due to some other reason. If not, I'll try mounting it readonly and then go on... -- bye, logix Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein. Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message