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Subject: Re: Second hard drive problems
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# grep wd1 dmesg.boot
wd1: 1039MB (2128896 sectors), 2112 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc1 not found at 0x170

# disklabel -r wd1s1
disklabel: /dev/rwd1s1c: Device not configured
# disklabel -r wd1s1e
disklabel: /dev/rwd1s1e: Device not configured

Does this mean the disk is dead and I'm SOL?  

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Doug Silver
Quantified Systems, Inc
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On Mon, 22 May 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote:

> On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 04:13:32PM -0700, dsilver@mail.quantified.com wrote:
> > Platform: FBSD 2.2.7
> > 
> > One of our machines which has two IDE drives in it crashed over the
> > weekend and after that, the /var partition could not mount.  Here's
> > /etc/fstab:
> > # Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump
> > Pass#
> > /dev/wd0s1b             none            swap    sw              0       0
> > /dev/wd0s1a             /               ufs     rw              1       1
> > /dev/wd0s1e             /usr            ufs     rw              2       2
> > /dev/wd1s1e             /var            ufs     rw              2       2
> > /dev/wd0s1f             /www            ufs     rw              2       2
> > 
> > So the root (/, /usr, /www) comes up fine, but when I try to run
> > fsck, it says "Device not configured".  This drive had been in the machine
> > for several months, so it's not a new drive at all.  Does anyone have
> > some advice on how to determine if the drive went bad?  I've never seen
> > fsck just quit like that.
> 
> What does,
> 
>   % grep wd1 /var/run/dmesg.boot
> 
> Say? Was the HDD detected at boot?
> 
> If so, what does,
> 
>   # dislabel -r wd1s1
> 
> Return?
> -- 
> Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com
> 


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