From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 19 14:06:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25806 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:06:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25783 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:06:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14250; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:05:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:05:21 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Mike Newell cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: [Repost] Bad superblock errors on Libretto In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Mike Newell wrote: > I sent the attached E-mail the other day and didn't get any responses, so > I figured I'd give it one more try. One thing I didn't mention before was > that the two of us that are having problems have loaded the PAO > extensions... > > fsck'ing with backup block 32 just makes stuff worse. Any hints/ideas/??? My guess is that you have some maurading disk corruption. Do you have FreeBSD installed in dedicated or compatibility mode? > BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH THOSE IN FIRST ALTERNATE > > This occurs after the systems have been up and running fine. It usually > happens after several (in my case many) reboots. The file system cannot > be checked, and any attempt to do so generates an even more corrupt file > system. In my case I'd been running FreeBSD for a couple of days, then > started running Windoze for about a week, then when I tried to boot the > FreeBSD partition I got the is message. The file systems get badly > corrupted (I had some _VERY_ intereting special files the last time this > happened - as in directories changed to special files with really weird > major/minor numbers). About the only thing to do is reload... :-(!! > > When this happened to me first I reformatted the partition as DOS and did > a scandisk throuogh with surface scan; no media errors were found. No > media error messages are ever logged, so I suspect it's not a media > problem. > > The configuration is as follows: > > - Libretto 70CT, 32M RAM, 3.2Gb IDE hard drive > - FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE > - Drive parititioned 2GB for Windoze, 1GB for FreeBSD > - Windoze '95 factory installed > > In each case the box ran for days or weeks with no problems, then this > error occurs. There does not appear to be a way to recover the file > system. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message