From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 26 20:16:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from access.inet.co.th (access.inet.co.th [203.151.127.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C17E37BD93 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 20:16:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pirat@access.inet.co.th) Received: from TruPPP3037.inet.co.th (TruPPP3037.inet.co.th [203.151.126.101]) by access.inet.co.th (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA14897; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:16:18 +0700 (ICT) (envelope-from pirat@access.inet.co.th) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:18:17 +0700 (ICT) From: pirat X-Sender: pirat@parwati.oaep.go.th To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wd0s1e error message In-Reply-To: <200004261226.IAA20953@world.std.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi sirs, first of all, i appreciate all of your efforts passing to me for this particular subject. i have just finished taring back and forth between my old hard disk and this new one luckily since all of data at /home are not destroyed. but some of /usr/bin /bin and /var, even /usr/X11r6/bin, can not survive. my remaining question is that one can use the old hard disk that get error message such that '... soft error reading fsnb ...' or not. presently, i reinstall freebsd 4.0 with full capacity to that one. once the installation finish, booting up, i get just one clue of defect during the startup. it says ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# ... status=59 error=10 . . . vm_fault: pager read error, pid 155 (ldconfig) pid 155 (ldconfig) uid 0, exited on signal 11 .... anyway, i install many ports and try to use that hard disk for experingting purpose. thanks in advance for any reply. and i real thank you for helping me in backing my old hard disk very much indeed. with best regards, pirat sriyotha On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:52:35 +0700 (ICT) > > From: pirat > > > > those kinds of errors often mean that the disk itself is dying. Make > > > sure you have good backups (and remember that some of your data may > > > have *already* been damaged). > > > > i afraid so. since only just a single ll takes a noticeable pause before > > displaying result. > > I'm actually not sure what that means. [I assume you meant 'ls'.] > It's *possible* that something in software is the problem. But I > think hardware failure is more likely, and if so it will get > progressively worse. > > > i have just finished fsck -y /dev/wd0s1e and also fsck -p /dev/wd0s1e and > > restart my machine. but i have never got an idea of backup. would you > > please once again point me how to backup ? > > Actually, there are a lot of ways to do backups. There's a whole > section on the topic in the FreeBSD handbook. The traditional answers > are dump(8) and restore(8), but they work on whole filesystems, which > may be more data than you want to deal with. I tend to use tar(1) for > my backups, although lately I've started experimenting with backing up > by using ISO9660 images. > > > once again many thanks in advance. > > Good luck. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message