Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 12:11:48 +0100 From: Paul Walsh <paul@nation-net.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> Subject: Re: error reading fixed disk Message-ID: <323E8774.1914@nation-net.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > Steve Walsh writes: > > > > Hmm ... this doesn't look so good. > > No, it doesn't. You don't really give us enough information. > > > I thought it was a mbr problem but dos fdisk gives me this. > > > > error reading fixed drive > > > > It is an eide Quantum Fireball 1080Mb > > > > Is it dead? > > Maybe FDISK is dead. Try using the FreeBSD version. Are you > interested in whatever contents are still on it? Otherwise you could > try just setting it up with FreeBSD. You might need to format it. > Sorry, FreeBSD doens't have a format program, you'll have to hope that > your system BIOS does. > > Greg OK , I've tried to mount it from freeBSD and this is what I get mount /dev/wd1a /mnt wd1: hard error reading fsbn 0wd1: status 59<seekdone,drq,err> error 40<uncorr> wd1: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0 (wd1 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0) dev/wd1a on /mnt : Input/Output error then I realised that the freeBSD was on the second slice mount /dev/wd1s2a /mnt panic ufs_lock: recursive lock not expected reboot in 15 secs... So now I'm totally confused. The disk contains win95 and freebsd in a fipsed partition. Any chance of recovering the data or does it need 'low-level formatting' Regards, Paul.
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