From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 17 14:47:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 111FC106568F for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:47:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from naylor.b.david@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f226.google.com (mail-ew0-f226.google.com [209.85.219.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E3958FC1C for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:47:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy26 with SMTP id 26so1308420ewy.3 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:47:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:organization:to:subject :date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=qc3xZ5/zpICizvEY61mJ2RDHqn4fi6MLTjyYtdydACA=; b=ad6yVuueGrzV0rXbpBPz8a0Z/BGdoOtgX39/7uWU6buq8GLn5aPaJ3NNXAWEbKmo/n fm88ztVAbTc6inyRYqkTqiwUkWSKlAoNq2qLHdA8DwdSjyd9ys2Yga81Fda0Qocq+3Qz w3lqFu036/iWA0DwojJQR70ihHX4Dfr9J6SXQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; b=EZ7hEvOT8m0mKd2tifN9/hpC9okVvS0P8R9tzjLCSE0avGed3Fq5+G4XHI0tV0Zq7s CwcjZH9pfW0yTHz7x9KKeZDv7Fq0bTtU5GBERCABvWvWb4roStA0FLLxhSf4wd0PsENq K+oCMyWvfkG7VoTPrvs7gGA82M6uFEY2roSXo= Received: by 10.213.103.83 with SMTP id j19mr8668998ebo.31.1261061228395; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:47:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.dg ([41.0.54.20]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm3321641eyb.34.2009.12.17.06.47.06 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:47:07 -0800 (PST) From: David Naylor Organization: Private To: Warren Block Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:47:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (FreeBSD/8.0-PRERELEASE; KDE/4.3.3; amd64; ; ) References: <200912162359.44675.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1634955.gOaPWPogEd"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912171647.17938.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Device not configured X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:47:10 -0000 --nextPart1634955.gOaPWPogEd Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=3D/dev/ad8 of=3D/dev/ad8 bs=3D1024k >=20 > 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 tryi= ng=20 to eliminate problems relating to VirtualBox and DMA errors an ad8. =20 > > 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 >=20 > 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 res= et > > (root was ro > > > > :-) ). >=20 > Did it come back up? Yes, all data is still there, as before. =20 > > Is this expected behaviour or something wrong with the HDD? >=20 > Not expected, exactly, but not surprising. The hardware should be fine. Well, no harm done. =20 Thanks for your reply --nextPart1634955.gOaPWPogEd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAksqRHUACgkQUaaFgP9pFrIHTwCfdRcd6UbFp9iHuLySeh7hCQVj wmgAoIFMyFZsx8LwKuGvNgcrFWKsygKk =G7kB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1634955.gOaPWPogEd--