From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 4 19:27:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D28116A4CE for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 19:27:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E0F343D9B for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 19:27:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd01@usmstudent.com) Received: from usmstudent.com ([68.209.222.4]) by imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.netESMTP <20040105032658.VVVF20306.imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net@usmstudent.com>; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 22:26:58 -0500 Message-ID: <3FF8D97F.40506@usmstudent.com> Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 21:26:55 -0600 From: backdoc User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman References: <3FF88755.5090107@usmstudent.com> <20040104220841.GA96090@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040104220841.GA96090@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HD problems after power outage X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd01@usmstudent.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 03:27:03 -0000 Ahhhh!!!! 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? >