From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 13 08:29:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA04672 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 08:29:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fnord.i33.com (fnord.i33.com [207.111.105.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA04667 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 08:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fnord.i33.com ([127.0.0.1]) by fnord.i33.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA20477; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 11:25:10 -0400 Message-ID: <19970613112509.00414@i33.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 11:25:09 -0400 From: "Amir Y. Rosenblatt" To: Zahemszky Gabor Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Disk Biff [2.2.1-stable] References: <19970612111731.27738@i33.com> <199706131406.QAA01745@CoDe.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.75 In-Reply-To: <199706131406.QAA01745@CoDe.hu>; from "Zahemszky Gabor" on 13 June 1997 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 13 June 1997, Zahemszky Gabor wrote: > > Well, you don't have to mount FIXIT, but use the fixit menu from the > installation menu. After it you have to switch floppies, and go! I tried that and it told me that it couldn;t mount the fixit disk. Meanwhile, I managed to do a FreeBSD install on an IDE drive on another box, hook my scsi host adapter to that box and pull the critical stuff from the hosed disk (i.e. the mail files). Looks like the magic number and superblock info on like half the partitions were hosed (and so fscking those partitions nuked everything on em -- luckily my mail partitionw as not one of them). Praise be to "fsck -b 32". Gonna RMA the disk today and use the IDE drive as a temporary replacement. As a side question, what have people's experiences been with the Baraccudas vs. things liek the Quantum Atlases. I've now had to replace probably 4 'cudas in the last year or so (the first 1 or two I think died of heat problems -- the cause of death for the others is still unknown). I'm wondering if I should just switch to the Quantums -- the 'cudas seem really really sensitive. -Amir -- Amir Y. Rosenblatt (212) 448-0333 sr. systems/network administrator http://www.i33.com i33 communications corp. amir@i33.com