From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 14 02:18:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89B9C16A4EE for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:18:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ken@nargothrond.kdm.org) Received: from nargothrond.kdm.org (nargothrond.kdm.org [70.56.43.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1462D43F62 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:15:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ken@nargothrond.kdm.org) Received: from nargothrond.kdm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nargothrond.kdm.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kAE2FK5a005027; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:15:20 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ken@nargothrond.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by nargothrond.kdm.org (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id kAE2FKkR005026; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:15:20 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ken) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:15:20 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" Message-ID: <20061114021520.GA4995@nargothrond.kdm.org> References: <20061113224217.GA94669@nargothrond.kdm.org> <200611140135.kAE1ZgMs084856@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200611140135.kAE1ZgMs084856@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.1/2191/Mon Nov 13 11:37:53 2006 on nargothrond.kdm.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Camcontrol not changing modepage X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:18:44 -0000 On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 20:35:42 -0500, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > > > Your best bet is to write to that individual sector. Since the drive seems > > to support write reallocation, that should allow it to remap that sector, > > and the rest of the drive should be useable. > > > > One way to try to pull all of the accessible data off the drive is phk's > > 'recoverdisk' program, located in /usr/src/tools/tools/recoverdisk. > > > > It will pull as many blocks as it can off the drive. > > > > You could pull off as many blocks as you can into a file that is an image > > of the drive, and then dd that image back over the drive itself. > > > > recoverdisk may be a little easier to deal with. > > > I appreciate the help, but it didn't seem to help/work/etc. I > just newfs'd it, but thanks again. Glad you got it working, sorry you lost your data. Keep in mind that newfs doesn't overwrite every sector on the disk, but as you write files and fill up the disk, you should end up writing every sector. > (Personal question, are you related to a Karen Merry from MI and > FL?) Nope. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org