Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 15:33:08 -0600 (MDT) From: Ade Barkah <mbarkah@hemi.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Poof, hard drive wiped clean... Message-ID: <199605152133.PAA26133@hemi.com>
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One of our 2.1-R machines was backing up an nfs-mounted filesystem to a 4mm tape when poof, the system panicked, spewed something about / being mangled, rebooted, and never came back. Booting the machine up gives the familiar "Non-system disk..." error. Inserting a DOS boot floppy and running fdisk reveals... nothing! (0% usage on the drive.) Looks like the partition information got wiped clean. Hmm, how could this be ? Hardware failure ? Sounds unlikely. I'll run diagnostics on the drive later tonight. The system is a Compaq Proliant 2000 Server (Pentium), running FreeBSD 2.1-Release. The drive which got wiped was sd0 (one of those Compaq hot-pluggable drives, 1gb) off an Adaptec 174x (EISA). The machine is our news server, and has 64mb RAM on it. Any ideas ? I'm going to simply repartition and reinstall FreeBSD on it, but I'm worried this will happen again. Thanks for any hints, -Ade ------------------------------------------------------------------- Inet: mbarkah@hemi.com - HEMISPHERE ONLINE - <http://www.hemi.com/>; -------------------------------------------------------------------
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