From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 24 14:29:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9FB816A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:29:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0F5743FE1 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:29:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shritis@gmx.de) Received: (qmail 6746 invoked by uid 65534); 24 Nov 2003 22:29:41 -0000 Received: from p50873693.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO gmx.de) (80.135.54.147) by mail.gmx.net (mp009) with SMTP; 24 Nov 2003 23:29:41 +0100 X-Authenticated: #2437499 Message-ID: <3FC28651.4060505@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 23:29:37 +0100 From: Robert Neumann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry McAllister References: <200311242127.hAOLRe403716@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200311242127.hAOLRe403716@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HD error: BAD SUPER BLOCK X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 22:29:44 -0000 Hi Jerry, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > NOTE: If you run disklabel and do not use the "-r" switch, then > what you are seeing is the socalled 'in-cure' version of the disklabel > and if no FreeBSD label has been written on the disk, the system will > make up some default stuff. So, just seing # /dev/ad6 > and type: , etc plus the line for c: followed by those messages > saying cannot find label is a strong indication that nothing is there. > Has fdisk and disklabel (with a write switch) ever been done on this disk? > I had this disk working in a FreeBSD 4.7 machine. When I installed FreeBSD i created one partition on the disk and it worked without error. This was also strange: When I moved to my new home I took the disk out of the 4.7 machine for transport. When I put it back and booted 4.7 there came the same errors (BAD SUPER BLOCK ...). I then put the drive into a system running Windows 2000 (don't know why I did this) and just startet it. Immediately after that I shut down Win2000 and moved the disk back to the 4.7 machine - booted it - and the disk worked again without error. I have no idea what happend there - I just was happy that all data was still there. Regardz, Robert