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Date:      Wed, 4 Dec 2002 00:51:29 +0100
From:      "Daniel Geske" <danielgeske@gmx.net>
To:        "'Robert Johannes'" <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu>
Cc:        <freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: fsck: PLEASE RERUN FSCK - does not fix problem :-(
Message-ID:  <003201c29b26$ee79d6e0$6ef9a8c0@Bowman>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0212021616470.28694-100000@mendeleev.hamline.edu>

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Dear Robert:

Yes, I have now mounted the FS RO to copy my data. Thanks for your tip.
Pretty good, I only lost six files.
From here, I will continue to investigate the failure and try to fix the
problem. Don't really have ideas on how to go on though... I'll have to
do some reading before, I guess.

Greetings

Daniel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Johannes [mailto:rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 11:19 PM
> To: Daniel Geske
> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: RE: fsck: PLEASE RERUN FSCK - does not fix problem :-(
> 
> 
> Have you tried mounting it read-only?  That's worked for me 
> lately when I couldn't mount a filesystem because it was 'dirty'.
> 
> mount -o ro /dev/dxxxx /mnt
> 
> robert
> 
> On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Daniel Geske wrote:
> 
> > Hi David,
> >
> > I checked all my drives
> > 1) if AWRE = 1 and ARRE = 1
> > Result: enabled on all
> > 2) for defects
> > Result: no defects on any drive.
> >
> > Now, the information on that drive is somewhat valuable to me. 
> > Interestingly, fsck shows me the number and overall size of 
> the files 
> > the slice contains. So the files are still there. Can they be made 
> > accessible? How can I mount the filesystem without cleaning 
> it, so I 
> > can copy the good files before wiping the slice?
> > Normally, mount on a dirty disk gives "Operation not permitted". Is
> > there a way to manually mark the fs clean?
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie [mailto:dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie]
> > > Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 2:35 PM
> > > To: Daniel Geske
> > > Cc: 'Daniel Geske'; freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
> > > Subject: Re: fsck: PLEASE RERUN FSCK - does not fix problem :-(
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:29:20PM +0100, Daniel Geske wrote:
> > > > Thanks for your reply. Is there anything I can do like make
> > > the disk
> > > > skip the bad parts and keep on using the parts that are still 
> > > > good?
> > >
> > > As I unserstand it, the "MEDIUM ERROR" is the disk saying that it 
> > > tried to read the requested block, but couldn't. SCSI 
> Drives should 
> > > be clever enough to be able to map these blocks to spare blocks 
> > > elsewhere on the disk, but this remapping can only be done on a 
> > > write. (This is usually enabeled by default, but you may need to 
> > > enable it with camcontrol.)
> > >
> > > So, if the information on the disk isn't too important 
> you can try 
> > > rewriting the sectors on the disk to get the disk to remap them. 
> > > Something like "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1" should work, but 
> > > remember it will wipe the information on the disk.
> > >
> > > While this often works, if the disk is going bad you find that it 
> > > will quickly reach a state where you are loosing blocks 
> often enough 
> > > that the disk is useless and you're better off buying a new one.
> > >
> > > (On our busier disks we probably see one or two blocks go bad a 
> > > month, as shown by "camcontrol defects daX". Disks that are going 
> > > bad any faster than that should be backed up before they die...)
> > >
> > > 	David.
> > >
> >
> >
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