From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 21 4:10: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E498837B524 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 04:09:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA28180; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:07:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200003211207.NAA28180@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Reading from bad disk ? In-Reply-To: <200003211202.NAA60968@freebsd.dk> from Soren Schmidt at "Mar 21, 2000 01:02:12 pm" To: Soren Schmidt Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:07:13 +0100 (CET) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I am asking because a strategy which often 'fixes' the ... > Erhm, I would get a new disk :), you dont intend to trust any > data to this setup do you ?? of course, but i need to recover the old stuff first! A comment: this is a 18GB IBM 7200 RPM disk and i noticed it tends to become very hot compared to other disks when mounted in the same machine (on a removable frame). Do others have the same experience ? > Anyhow, I dont remember if it is possible to actually get at the data on > a transfer that the drive marked bad, but I can check up when I get > to my doc shelf. But I wouldn't trust that data for _anything_ it is > likely to be totally corrupted due to the drive trying to ECC correct > it and what not... still might be useful for visual inspection. cheers luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) Mobile +39-347-0373137 -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message