Re: disklabel/scan_ffs

2014-08-11 Thread Stefan Olsson
Bliss! -A simple power cycle while bridge was still connected with USB, woke the disk up! Both disklabel and fdisk worked fine on the disk after this and I've got my files. Before the powercycle I got same Input/output error from fdisk as from disklabel: # fdisk sd1 fdisk: DIOCGPDINFO: Input

Re: disklabel/scan_ffs

2014-08-11 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014-08-11, Stefan Olsson wrote: > Hi, > I have a hard drive that crashed in some way or the other, and I'd like to see > if I can access it, and ideally retrieve some of the files. I've connected it > to a USB-bridge, but I fear it is beyond repair as it gets an error when I try > to do diskla

Re: disklabel/scan_ffs

2014-08-11 Thread Zé Loff
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:36:35PM -0400, Stefan Olsson wrote: > Hi, > I have a hard drive that crashed in some way or the other, and I'd like to see > if I can access it, and ideally retrieve some of the files. I've connected it > to a USB-bridge, but I fear it is beyond repair as it gets an error

disklabel/scan_ffs

2014-08-11 Thread Stefan Olsson
Hi, I have a hard drive that crashed in some way or the other, and I'd like to see if I can access it, and ideally retrieve some of the files. I've connected it to a USB-bridge, but I fear it is beyond repair as it gets an error when I try to do disklabel: # disklabel sd1disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO

Re: Rescuing a messed-up disklabel -- scan_ffs, etc.

2012-06-21 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Oh, and I also did re-install grub as a last step. Now remains the task of getting back the Windows OS. :-) -Amarendra On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > Hi All, > > I am very pleased with the turn of events after I baked the disklabel > on my OBSD partition. A toast to

Rescuing a messed-up disklabel -- scan_ffs, etc.

2012-06-21 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Hi All, I am very pleased with the turn of events after I baked the disklabel on my OBSD partition. A toast to all the hard work put in by OBSD development team, and an offer for a free lunch/dinner/beer if you happen to be in this part of India (Pune, closer to Mumbai/Bombay). scan_ffs found all