On 29 Mar 2004 at 14:29, Bjoern Fischer wrote: > Hello Dan, > > > I had a hard drive failure. I'm trying to get as much data off it as > > I can before I restore from backup. I have mounted the drive in > > another box and I'm attempting to salvage what I can. > > being confronted with disk crashes like the one you described I usually > try to make a last backup of the complete unmounted file systems with dd. > Trying to fix the file system in place, i.e. on the failing disk that is > about to break down completely, makes the situation worse in many cases. > After dd'ing the file systems to a safe disk you can try fsck.
I'm finding the dd is challenging: # dd if=/dev/ad2s1e of=ad1s1e conv=noerror,sync bs=64k dd: /dev/ad2s1e: Input/output error 6+0 records in 6+0 records out 393216 bytes transferred in 42.776918 secs (9192 bytes/sec) dd: /dev/ad2s1e: Input/output error - note, this dd has not finished, I think because of these errors from /var/log/messages Mar 28 19:47:53 tmp /kernel: ad2: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting Mar 28 19:47:53 tmp /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. done Mar 28 19:48:03 tmp /kernel: ad2: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting Mar 28 19:48:03 tmp /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. done Mar 28 19:48:13 tmp /kernel: ad2: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting Mar 28 19:48:13 tmp /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. done Mar 28 19:48:21 tmp /kernel: ad2s1e: hard error reading fsbn 1279871 of 768-895 (ad2s1 bn 1279871; cn 79 tn 170 sn 26) trying PIO mode Mar 28 19:48:21 tmp /kernel: ad2: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode Mar 28 19:48:21 tmp /kernel: ad2: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode Mar 28 19:48:26 tmp /kernel: ad2s1e: hard error reading fsbn 1279903 of 768-895 (ad2s1 bn 1279903; cn 79 tn 170 sn 58) status=59 error=40 Mar 28 19:48:40 tmp /kernel: ad2: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting Mar 28 19:48:40 tmp /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. ata1-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded Mar 28 19:48:40 tmp /kernel: done -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - http://www.bsdcan.org/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
