From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 10 14:41:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA00395 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 14:41:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lugh.kerris.com (lugh.kerris.com [205.150.35.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA00386 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 14:41:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (mkerr@localhost) by lugh.kerris.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA04245; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 17:42:47 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 17:42:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Kerr To: John Scharles cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk Hard Error In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970710122500.0085c730@mail.isle.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, John Scharles wrote: > On powering up our FreeBSD 2.1.6 this morning we were greeted with a "hard > error reading block such&such" message. This is a Dell machine with a built > in IDE controller. > > After looking through the handbook and archives I haven't found much > information about trying to recover files off a dying drive (it has the > /usr directory, which of course has some files that are nowhere else!). Is > there way I can look at or force a mount? > > Also I saw some reference to a full drive causing this type of > error...could this be the cause of a hard error? I had similar problems when I first got my PC, though it wasn't a Dell. It would seem to me as if your hard drive is giving up the biscuit. My HD died a horrible and painful death, thankfully all under warranty. Ditto for my floppy drive at about the same time. Mike. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mike Kerr | http://www.net/~mkerr Kerr Information Systems | http://www.kerris.com/ mkerr@kerris.com | Web Guy, etc.