Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:09:10 -0500 From: "Donald Creel" <donxc@verizonmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: hard drive problems Message-ID: <20061105140910.7602123EE76@ws3-4.us4.outblaze.com>
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My apologies if this is wrong list.=20 =20 I have a Vaio PCG-9251 laptop with a Seagate Momentus 20G hard drive that h= as been working great=20 with 6.1 release. I had left it powered down for about 5 weeks, then on pow= erup, it was booting=20 fine until it started bringing the wireless online. I noticed that it was s= howing errors on ad0 but=20 it eventually made it through all the rc stuff and got to the login. Still = getting errors so I=20 tried fsck_ufs which failed with numerous bad sectors and then eventually s= howed the disk detached.=20 =20 What I have tried:=20 =20 1.) Boot with cd from 6.1 package set, create /etc/fstab on md00 with /dev/= ad0 params, running=20 fsck_ufs again.=20 Sometimes it reads disks and gives bad sector errors, other times it just s= ays ad0 detached and=20 returns error codes. Sometimes it seems to be making the corrections that I= am prompted to let it=20 do, but the end reault is the disk is detached.=20 =20 2.) Re-installing from the CD, but it always returns error that it couldn't= write partition table=20 to the disk.=20 =20 =20 3.) Formating with a Win98 startup disk. Always fails.=20 =20 4.) Removed the drive from the machine and installed old win98 drive which = works as expected.=20 =20 =20 I am not finding much help in my searches for these problems, so hopefully = someone here can give=20 the clueless a clue.=20 =20 Is there a way to re-attach the disk?=20 =20 Should I just trash it and replace it or is there any hope for it?=20 =20 I really don't have anything important on it, but I don't want to fork out = money for new one if I=20 don't have to.=20 =20 Please cc me as I am not subscribed to this list.=20 =20 Thanks=20 =20 =20 Don=20 --=20 Search for products and services at:=20 http://search.mail.com
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