From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 21 21:48:04 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A5A1106566B for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:48:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ezat@ezatech.com.au) Received: from mail11.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail11.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.192]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C90B8FC19 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:48:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ezat@ezatech.com.au) Received: from [192.168.20.3] (155.183.233.220.exetel.com.au [220.233.183.155]) (authenticated sender ezyt) by mail11.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m2LLlwaq021376; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:48:00 +1100 Message-ID: <47E42D08.1020703@ezatech.com.au> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:47:52 +1100 From: Ezat - Ezatech User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, web@umich.edu References: <20080321173950.GF26011@dell1> In-Reply-To: <20080321173950.GF26011@dell1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: help for a wounded disk drive... 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, 21 Mar 2008 21:48:04 -0000 Hey William, Was in a similar situation about a month ago.. I knew the drive was on its way out but once it went, i could not retrieve the data nor use it under freebsd even under a new system. My drive had physical issues. I got the drive, stuck it in a 3.5inch usb enclosure and plugged it into a ms windows box. Then I used a free proggy called ffsdrv which i found on sourceforge. Snipit --> It enables you to read BSD(FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) FFS partitions on Windows 2000/XP/2003. http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/ Managed to get all data off this way. Ezat William Bulley wrote: > I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 > system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on > this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. > > The drive is mechanically and electrically good. I just can't mount it > and use it under FreeBSD. It was a dual boot drive with a DOS partition > on the first partition and FreeBSD 5.4 on partition two. I did the normal > sysinstall for FreeBSD 5.5 as I had done many times before. Unfortunately, > I had the older, FreeBSD 5.4 drive cabled up (and powered up) on the second > IDE channel (using cable select) of an i386 motherboard while I did the 5.5 > install on a new, blank drive on the first IDE channel. > > I told sysinstall to add the standard FreeBSD bootloader on the new drive. > I don't recall if I allowed for a DOS partition or just used the entire disk. > The FreeBSD 5.4 disk on the second IDE channel also had the standard FreeBSD > bootloader from my earlier sysinstall of 5.4 on that disk. > > When I completed the install, I figured I could just mount the second (older) > drive manually. When I tried to do this, things went from bad to worse, and > the new system could never recognize the drive. I believe the installation > process attempted to (or succeeded in) putting (an unnecessary) bootloader on > the older drive. Had it not been connected, it would probably be okay today. > I learned an important lesson at that time... > > I don't know what steps to take to recover this drive so I can mount it in a > read-only mode. I just want to recover the files on this drive. It is very > small by today's standards, so I will likely not use the drive in production. > > I am comfortable running any required shell commands (as root), but I don't > want to damage the disk drive any further. I hope I don't have to resort to > using dd(1) on the raw device! Thanks in advance for any pointers. > > Regards, > > web... > > -- > William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >