From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 5 14:13:53 2006 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 BDA0016A415 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 14:13:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from donxc@verizonmail.com) Received: from webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com (webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59FFE43D45 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 14:13:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from donxc@verizonmail.com) Received: from unknown (unknown [192.168.9.180]) by webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix) with QMQP id 8CDBA18001A0 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 14:09:10 +0000 (GMT) X-OB-Received: from unknown (205.158.62.86) by wfilter.us4.outblaze.com; 5 Nov 2006 14:09:10 -0000 Received: by ws3-4.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7602123EE76; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 14:09:10 +0000 (GMT) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Donald Creel" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:09:10 -0500 Received: from [63.17.131.166] by ws3-4.us4.outblaze.com with http for donxc@verizonmail.com; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:09:10 -0500 X-Originating-Ip: 63.17.131.166 X-Originating-Server: ws3-4.us4.outblaze.com Message-Id: <20061105140910.7602123EE76@ws3-4.us4.outblaze.com> Subject: hard drive problems 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: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 14:13:53 -0000 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