From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 7 01:55:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 BBB4716A41F for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 01:55:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from luck@computerking.ca) Received: from mail1.computerking.ca (computerking.ca [68.146.204.152]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7023443D46 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 01:55:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from luck@computerking.ca) Received: from mail1.computerking.ca (localhost.computerking.ca [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.computerking.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 585746C376 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 19:54:46 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.10] (unknown [192.168.0.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail1.computerking.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E3856C374 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 19:54:46 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <4345D57B.7090407@computerking.ca> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:55:07 -0600 From: RYAN vAN GINNEKEN User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 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 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Subject: disk errors help!! 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: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 01:55:07 -0000 My freebsd 4.11 system has been subjected to a power failure and seems to have many disk errors something about soft updates and not being able to read certain sectors it comes up with the standard single user pick your shell command and tells me to run fsck manually. I have run it several times but the system keeps comming with ad0s4 marked dirty which is my /usr partition. Sometimes i get a resetting device ata0 timeout error. What should i do of course i have no current backups for this system and the most important thing is retrieving my users data it would be great if i could get the system to boot up but if i have to reinstall no biggy as long as i can get most of my data back. ps i promise to do remote backups nightly for the rest of my life. -- Computer King/CaNMail http://www.computerking.ca http://www.canmail.org Sales, Service, and Hosting Email, Data, and Web Packages Ask about web design specials Affiliates http://www.computerking.ca/pages/links/affiliates/affiliates.htm -- If you eat a live frog in the morning, nothing worse will happen to either of you for the rest of the day.