Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:47:14 +0200 From: David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Device not configured Message-ID: <200912171647.17938.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912161742000.97785@wonkity.com> References: <200912162359.44675.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912161742000.97785@wonkity.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thursday 17 December 2009 02:56:12 Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, David Naylor wrote: > > I booted into single user mode (running FreeBSD 8 RC2) and did: > > > > # dd if=/dev/ad8 of=/dev/ad8 bs=1024k > > That command copies the hard drive... over itself. What were you trying > to do? The dd manpages mentioned this might help with errors on the HDD. I'm trying to eliminate problems relating to VirtualBox and DMA errors an ad8. > > After waiting a few hours the command completed without problem (ad8 is > > the HDD that has FreeBSD). After that I got the following: > > > > # reboot > > reboot: device not configured > > # ls > > vnode_pager_getpages: I/O read error > > ls: device not configured > > Not good. Maybe trying to swap back in from swap that was just > overwritten? No swap was active at that time > > Pressing the boxes power button results in the above vnode message to > > spam the screen. The only way to reset the system was to do a hard reset > > (root was ro > > > > :-) ). > > Did it come back up? Yes, all data is still there, as before. > > Is this expected behaviour or something wrong with the HDD? > > Not expected, exactly, but not surprising. The hardware should be fine. Well, no harm done. Thanks for your reply [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAksqRHUACgkQUaaFgP9pFrIHTwCfdRcd6UbFp9iHuLySeh7hCQVj wmgAoIFMyFZsx8LwKuGvNgcrFWKsygKk =G7kB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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