From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 24 16:01:40 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 B04E816A4D4 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:01:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1548C43FAF for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:01:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id hAP01P304564; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:01:25 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200311250001.hAP01P304564@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: shritis@gmx.de (Robert Neumann) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:01:25 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <3FC28651.4060505@gmx.de> from "Robert Neumann" at Nov 24, 2003 11:29:37 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Jerry McAllister 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: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 00:01:40 -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. Sounds like you made a visit to 'The Twilight Zone'. ////jerry > > Regardz, > > Robert >