From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 30 13:18:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA19317 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 13:18:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chain.freebsd.os.org.za (oTB349KoX8a2+v7k6AYxqbNvU/MtvVjV@chain.iafrica.com [196.7.74.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA19248 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 13:18:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from khetan@localhost) by chain.freebsd.os.org.za (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA00833 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 22:16:29 +0200 (SAT) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 22:16:29 +0200 (SAT) From: "Khetan H. Gajjar" Message-Id: <199709302016.WAA00833@chain.freebsd.os.org.za> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Broken IDE drive ? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi. I've got a seriously broken IDE drive. When I try to mount a partition on it, it says : Sep 30 22:13:59 chain /kernel: wd0s2b: hard error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (wd0s 2 bn 16; cn 0 tn 0 sn 16)wd0: status 59 error 40 Is there any way to recover, or force mount to mount the drive ? I tried mount -f, but that didn't do much. TIA. Khetan Gajjar.