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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:56:29 +0100
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        Brian Wolter <bwolter@students.depaul.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2nd HDD problem
Message-ID:  <3AAC812D.94355FFD@i-clue.de>
References:  <Pine.HPX.4.21.0103101242570.24802-100000@ux1>

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Brian Wolter schrieb:
> 
> two days ago the read/write head on my master hdd somehow got royally
> messed up rendering the drive useless.  today a replaced the master drive
> and reinstalled FreeBSD.  my second hdd, which i also used in conjunction
> with the now ruined drive contains about 12 Gigs of data that i need back.
> (both drives are UFS, partitioned under FreeBSD)
> 
> i just finished reinstalling FreeBSD, but trying to mount the second
> drive, that wasn't damaged, produces the error "incorrect super block". i
> checked the label editor and the slices still exist, however the
> corrosponding devices in /dev (should be ad5s1b and ad5s1e) don't.
> 
> how can i create the appropriate device so i can once again mount this
> drive without jepordizing it's contents? (or any other solution that would
> work here)

man MAKEDEV
cd /dev
sh ./MAKEDEV ad5

should do the job. Check the manpage and the header of this script
first, since I answered without checking first ;)

-Christoph Sold

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