From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 21 1:55:34 2002 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 DA90B37B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 01:55:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.nucleus.com (mail.nucleus.com [207.34.93.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 459B943E64 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 01:55:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grant.cooper@nucleus.com) Received: from TCOOPER (unverified [205.206.254.42]) by mail.nucleus.com (Vircom SMTPRS 1.4.232) with SMTP id for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 02:55:29 -0600 Message-ID: <004801c23094$b6c1ea50$2afececd@TCOOPER> From: "Grant Cooper" To: "Questions" References: Subject: Harddrives and Backups Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 02:57:59 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a question - more hardware. But I have an older machine, dell pent 233 and I installed a second harddrive 40 gigs for sole purpose to back up my freeBSD (4 gigs) so I can practice installing/destroying :). But I can't make a copy using one file. I have to break it down into 6 files. Each apr. 600MB. Can this be a limitation of the bios or hardware in general? I am starting to think this is why corps use tape back ups? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Golding" To: "Questions" Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 4:27 AM Subject: IDE HDD errors on boot/mount > Yesterday I added an extra DIMM to my machine and since then I've been > unable to boot to the second drive. I actually have 2 IBM Deskstar 40GB > drives installed with -stable and 4.6-RELEASE on the second and I use > the FreeBSD boot manager to control these things. Disk one boots okay > but disk two goes through the bootloader before dying with these > messages: > > > Disk Error 0x10 (lba0x4f) > Disk Error 0x10 (lba0x4f) > > No /boot/loader > > >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 1:ad(1,a)/kernel > boot: > Disk Error 0x10 (lba0x4f) > no /kernel > > >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 1:ad(1,a)/kernel > boot: > > Then it awaits my instructions. > > I've booted from a fixit CD and reinstalled the MBR but it didn't help > (the loader worked before hand anyway). If I try and mount the slice it > dies with an "Input/output error" > > I grounded myself before opening the machine and also gave the heatsink > etc. a little dust. I've looked again and made sure the cables are > still firmly attached too. > > Anyone want to tell me just what I've done? > > TIA > Kevin > -- > kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message