Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 09:02:40 +0200 From: Paig Chong Woo <cwpaig@valken.org> To: lassee@kth.se Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help my Harddrive stopped working! Message-ID: <2736595F-97B7-4BCA-99C2-D5ABBCE23F11@valken.org> In-Reply-To: <26480.193.180.216.132.1154413423.squirrel@webmail.sys.kth.se> References: <26480.193.180.216.132.1154413423.squirrel@webmail.sys.kth.se>
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Le 1 ao=FBt 2006 =E0 08:23, Lasse Edlund a =E9crit : > I have an old Pentium III computer with FreeBSD 5.3 and I am using =20 > GEOM > GBDE encryption on a few IDE-disks that are mounted on a PCI-ide > controller. > I had some important files on a less than 1 year old 300gb Maxtor > harddrive (ad5) when it stopped working. The harddrive had been =20 > working > ok, and it had been in the computer all the time, so no risk physical > damage. Then I mounted and attached it and tried to move a few gb's of > files to it and I got lots of WRITE_DMA errors all over the terminal. > Then the computer crashed, next reboot I could attach it with gbde =20 > but not > mount, due to I/O errors, and fsck said "incorrect superblock". > After second restart the computer could not find it, > and the dmesg from the third restart is shown below. > What shall I do to get my data back? I have approx 200mb of =20 > critical data > there that I need to get back.. I had this kind of problem recently, and I was able to recover the =20 entire data by finding a functional identical drive and swapping the =20 logic boards. But then again I was lucky to find an identical drive, =20 and the issue was a malfuntionning logic board... --=20 See you!!! PAIG Chong Woo. E-Mail : cw@paig.net ICQ : 1305386 Page web : http://www.valken.org --- Q: My Etch-A-Sketch has lines that prevent me from doing my art project. A: Pick it up and shake it.
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