On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote: > >> fsck stops randomly with stuff like: > >> CANNOT READ BLOCK: ######## > >> evry time is different number and eventually i get: > >> ad0: WARNING - removed from configuration > >> ata0-master: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out > > > > Sounds like the HD may be near a fatal crash. > > I suggest you backup as much as you can. > > yea.. that was my thought too but it's only one drive and i can't get it > to boot all the way. and it's a laptop..... > > is there a way to mount remotely a laptop hdd?
I just had to recover from that problem last week, also on a laptop drive. First, have you tried booting in single user? mount all drives read only, and use atacontrol to slow down the drive like this: # atacontrol mode 0 udma33 pio4 this may solve some problem. Run fsck -yf on all disks. Try editing fstab so drives are mounted read only, you can avoid mounting /var and /tmp and use memory disks for these by setting varmfs=yes in rc.conf. This may help you rescue your data while on the laptop. Another option is to buy a converter cable that lets you connect a laptop drive to a standard IDE port, if you have an ordinary station available. Cheers, Erik GnuPG: http://www.locolomo.org/home/norgaard/norgaard.gpg.asc pub 1024D/11D11F9E 2003-08-15 Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = C394 81C4 D137 EEE5 39BE 82D5 3E6B FB3E 11D1 1F9E _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
