From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 11 14:31:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA02480 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 14:31:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from siegfried.utmb.edu (siegfried.utmb.edu [129.109.59.86]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA02470 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 14:31:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beowulf.utmb.EDU (beowulf.utmb.edu [129.109.59.83]) by siegfried.utmb.edu (8.5/8.5) with ESMTP id QAA03186; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:28:09 -0500 Received: by beowulf.utmb.EDU (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA18906; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:28:16 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:28:16 -0500 From: bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu (M. L. Dodson) Message-Id: <199609112128.QAA18906@beowulf.utmb.EDU> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Any hope of recovering from this hard disk failure? X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello all, The following occurred after an orderly shutdown of a 2.1.5R system (P5-100, 16M, 256K Cache, Genuine Intel). The system had been extensively stress tested a week or so earlier (running a 60 MB bonnie benchmark in a loop for 96 hours), so I don't thing anything is wrong with the motherboard. No big deal, I can reinstall, but for my information, is there anything reasonable that can be done to try to fix this problem without a reinstall? This was a test system for FreeBSD in our environment, so there is no backup (but this is not a problem, a fix would just save me some typing.) | | (boot messages strictly normal) | swapon: /dev/wd0s1b: No such file or directory Automatic Reboot in progress /dev/rwd0a: clean 8846 free (230 frags, 1077 blocks, 1% fragmentation /dev/wd0s1e: No such file or directory Can't stat /dev/we0s1e Automatic file system check failed... help! Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh: Then the output from: disklabel /dev/rwd0a looks quite reasonable. Thanks in advance! Bud Dodson -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790