I have an old laptop configured with softraid encryption using a USB keydisk. The machine was never intended to be used for anything more than just testing. However, I started putting a few cvs repositories on it and slowly the machine became somewhat important.
Today, when doing a cvs import of a little programming project on my web server, the ssh connection died in the middle of the transfer. I have not tried to restart it. This is whats on the screen right now. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 3187832; cn 820 tn 230 sn 42), retrying wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 4 wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4 wd0d: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 6890352 of 6890352-6890479 (wd0 bn 1 3187832; cn 820 tn 230 sn 42), retrying wd0d: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 6890391 of 6890352-6890479 (wd0 bn 1 3187871; cn 820 tn 231 sn 18), retrying wd0d: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 6890391 of 6890352-6890479 (wd0 bn 1 3187871; cn 820 tn 231 sn 18), retrying softraid0: i/o error on block 6890352 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Kind of self explaining: old machine with faulty disk! I do have backups but would like to have a copy of some recent commits. Switching console gives me a login prompt but after entering a user name and pressing enter the machine just hangs. The machine will answer to ping but not ssh. My question is: Do I have any options other than trying to reboot? Optionally into single user mode? Cheers, Erling
