From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 5 21:13:20 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 80F8B16A557 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 21:13:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fed1rmmtao03.cox.net (fed1rmmtao03.cox.net [68.230.241.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AA9343D68 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 21:13:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mnavarre@cox.net) Received: from cox.net ([68.6.195.68]) by fed1rmmtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-117-20041022) with ESMTP id <20041205211317.CGYV20678.fed1rmmtao03.cox.net@cox.net> for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 16:13:17 -0500 Message-ID: <41B379EE.9090503@cox.net> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 13:13:18 -0800 From: Matt Navarre User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Disk problems - hard error reading fsbn NNNNNNNN X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:13:20 -0000 After a power outage last night I rebooted my computer and fsck complained of the following : ad1s2e: hard error reading fsbn 5103776 (ad1s2 bn 5103776; cn 317 tn 177 sn 20) status=59 error=40 Then goes on for a while giving the same error on blocks 5103776 - 5103807, except for block 5103777 which has error=01. Does this mean the disk is failing, or can I just reformat? And what's the best way to recover any recoverable data from that slice? Unfortunately I don't have a recent backup, since my tape drive joined the choir invisible a while ago and I haven't had a chance to replace it.