Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 17:42:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Kerr <mkerr@kerris.com> To: John Scharles <johns@cruz.isle.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk Hard Error Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970710174115.3795B-100000@lugh.kerris.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970710122500.0085c730@mail.isle.net>
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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.
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