Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:34:24 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Marty Landman" <martster@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: input/output error on hd Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070222163157.0249d9f8@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <70063950702221419s57a34f05p1bdee62713a67aae@mail.gmail.com > References: <70063950702221419s57a34f05p1bdee62713a67aae@mail.gmail.com>
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You may have lost the partition table. You can try repartitioning the
drive but do NOT do a newfs. You can easily try it in sysinstall.
-Derek
At 04:19 PM 2/22/2007, Marty Landman wrote:
>I wrote about this problem before, still working on recovery. After a power
>outage I lost my primary slave hd, a 250MB Maxtor. Got rebooted ok by
>editing it out of the fstab i.e.
>
>%cat /etc/fstab
># Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump
>Pass#
>/dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0
>/dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
>...
>#/dev/ad1s1c /hoss ufs rw 2 2
>%
>
>It's been explained to me that ad1s1c was an inappropriate name for the
>partition on this drive, will change that after fixing this mess.
>
>Here is a problem symptom summary:
>
>%sudo mount /dev/ad1s1c /hoss
>mount: /dev/ad1s1c: Input/output error
>%sudo mount /dev/ad1s1 /hoss
>mount: /dev/ad1s1: Input/output error
>%sudo fsck -f /dev/ad1s1
>fsck: Could not determine filesystem type
>%sudo fsck -f /dev/ad1s1c
>fsck: exec fsck_unused for /dev/ad1s1c in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or
>directory
>%
>
>Have determined from dd's that there's data on here, wonder though if the
>power outage caused some permanent damage. Have isolated the errors to
>blocks 129 through 144:
>
>%sudo dd if=/dev/ad1s1 of=/tmp/scratch bs=512 count=1 skip=127
>1+0 records in
>1+0 records out
>512 bytes transferred in 0.008638 secs (59274 bytes/sec)
>%sudo dd if=/dev/ad1s1 of=/tmp/scratch bs=512 count=1 skip=128
>dd: /dev/ad1s1: Input/output error
>0+0 records in
>0+0 records out
>0 bytes transferred in 1.315347 secs (0 bytes/sec)
>... [repeats for skip=129 to skip=142]
>%sudo dd if=/dev/ad1s1 of=/tmp/scratch bs=512 count=1 skip=143
>dd: /dev/ad1s1: Input/output error
>0+0 records in
>0+0 records out
>0 bytes transferred in 1.336348 secs (0 bytes/sec)
>%sudo dd if=/dev/ad1s1 of=/tmp/scratch bs=512 count=1 skip=144
>1+0 records in
>1+0 records out
>512 bytes transferred in 0.018065 secs (28342 bytes/sec)
>
>So, I need to know what to do next. Have been looking for pertinant
>information to learn how to pick apart whatever's keeping my drive for being
>mountable and fix manually but either don't know what to look for or haven't
>found the right explanation yet.
>
>For instance, is it possible if I somehow 'eliminated' blocks 129 through
>144 that the volume would then mount for me?
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>Marty
>
>
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