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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>
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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...


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See you!!!

PAIG Chong Woo.

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