From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 6 02:08:19 2004 Return-Path: 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 0A7B616A4CE for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 02:08:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fed1rmmtao03.cox.net (fed1rmmtao03.cox.net [68.230.241.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF4D43D5D for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 02:08:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mnavarre@cox.net) Received: from cox.net ([68.6.195.68]) by fed1rmmtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-117-20041022) with ESMTP id <20041206020816.IPND20678.fed1rmmtao03.cox.net@cox.net>; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 21:08:16 -0500 Message-ID: <41B3BF10.4050109@cox.net> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 18:08:16 -0800 From: Matt Navarre User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: orville weyrich , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20041206012042.42144.qmail@web50701.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041206012042.42144.qmail@web50701.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Disk problems - hard error reading fsbn NNNNNNNN X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 02:08:19 -0000 orville weyrich wrote: >Before doing anything to your hard drive, check out >your computer's power supply -- if they go off >tolerance on voltages, you may start getting disk >errors -- often the first sign of power supply >problems. > > Hmmm, Ok, I can see that. The errors are confined to one slice on the disk (ad1s2e) the other slice fsck'd fine. so I should be able to recover that data using a FreeSBIE cd and writing to a new drive. The damaged partition I can *hopefully* recover using dd_recover. Once I do that I'll try the drive in another computer and see if the problem's still there. we'll see..... >The power surge may have damaged your power supply. > >orville. > >--- Matt Navarre wrote: > > > >>After a power outage last night I rebooted my >>computer and fsck >>complained of the following : >> >>ad1s2e: hard error reading fsbn 5103776 (ad1s2 bn >>5103776; cn 317 tn >>177 sn 20) status=59 error=40 >> >>Then goes on for a while giving the same error on >>blocks 5103776 - >>5103807, except for block 5103777 which has >>error=01. >> >>Does this mean the disk is failing, or can I just >>reformat? And what's >>the best way to recover any recoverable data from >>that slice? >>Unfortunately I don't have a recent backup, since my >>tape drive joined >>the choir invisible a while ago and I haven't had a >>chance to replace it. >>_______________________________________________ >>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" >> >> >> > > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >All your favorites on one personal page – Try My Yahoo! >http://my.yahoo.com > > >