From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 14 07:09:13 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 060D216A418 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:09:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1987@borozo.com) Received: from smtp.3dresearch.com (dorabella.3dresearch.com [66.167.251.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C072E13C44B for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:09:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1987@borozo.com) Received: from fracasso.3dresearch.com (c-71-61-128-39.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [71.61.128.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by vmail.3dresearch.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB4CEE54ED; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:09:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from fracasso.3dresearch.com (fracasso.3dresearch.com [10.61.70.2]) by fracasso.3dresearch.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65DFE17016; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:09:10 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Demeny To: Wael Nasreddine Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:09:06 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200802140108.35844.jd1987@borozo.com> <20080214064319.GA2040@phoenix.nasreddine.info> In-Reply-To: <20080214064319.GA2040@phoenix.nasreddine.info> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802140209.07785.jd1987@borozo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:09:13 -0000 On Thursday 14 February 2008 01:43:19 am you wrote: > This One Time, at Band Camp, Joe Demeny said, On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:08:35AM -0500: > > I have an old Cyrix computer which doesn't post any more. > > > > It had 3 hard drives. The boot drive had the / partition as well as /usr > > and /var, and the other 2 drives were configured with Vinum RAID 1 for > > /home. > > > > I hooked up what used to be the boot drive in a new system and it showed > > what looked like some hex numbers and then the error message "BTX > > halted". > > > > So, I installed this drive as the second hard drive in a FreeBSD 6.2 > > system and I tried to mount it, but I got "incorrect super block". > > > > Looks like I have /dev/ad1, /dev/ad1s1, /dev/ad1s1c, and /dev/ad1s1e. > > > > Is there a way to mount these filesystems? > > When you try to mount it, what'd you get in dmesg ?? This is the end of dmesg: [...] Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2411127194 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec ad0: 152627MB at ata0-master UDMA33 ad1: 6105MB at ata0-slave UDMA33 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a I don't think that my attempts to mount /dev/ad1 shows up in dmesg... -- Joe Demeny