Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 21:26:55 -0600 From: backdoc <freebsd01@usmstudent.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HD problems after power outage Message-ID: <3FF8D97F.40506@usmstudent.com> In-Reply-To: <20040104220841.GA96090@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <3FF88755.5090107@usmstudent.com> <20040104220841.GA96090@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Ahhhh!!!! Slow down there, Fast Eddie :). I got it working!!! Basically, I repeated this process about 10 times: o boot -s o fsck /dev/da1s1e (which failed every time) o reboot o ran adaptec utility o repeat Finally, I tried: o boot -s o fsck -p (bingo!!) o mount -u / o mount -a Then, I did "mount" to see what was mounted. Everything was mounted. Life is good again. I didn't completely give up because I was able to mount the drive with errors and see the contents. I had given up hope of salvaging the drive, but not of recovering the data[1]. Perseverence paid off. The dumb part in all of this was that my freebsd-questions subscriber address is hosted on the FreeBSD box that was down. So, I couldn't get replies to my request for help until I had already gotten my box back up. Thanks for your attempt to help me. I do appreciate it. Darren [1] No. I don't have a backups. I guess I like living on the edge :). Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:36:21PM -0600, backdoc wrote: > >>I lost power at my house for a moment this morning which is causing some >>problems with my second hard drive. > > > [ fsck tale of woe...] > > >>I try to rerun fsck, but this pattern only repeats. Is there a way to >>fix this?? Or, am I toast? > > > Toasted to a nice golden brown on both sides. You've had a head crash > on that second drive, which has created a scratch right across a > number of disk sectors. Time to chuck that disk in the bin and > restore your backups[1] onto a new one. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > [1] You *do* have backups, don't you? >
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