Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 23:29:37 +0100 From: Robert Neumann <shritis@gmx.de> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HD error: BAD SUPER BLOCK Message-ID: <3FC28651.4060505@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <200311242127.hAOLRe403716@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200311242127.hAOLRe403716@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Hi Jerry, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > NOTE: If you run disklabel and do not use the "-r" switch, then > what you are seeing is the socalled 'in-cure' version of the disklabel > and if no FreeBSD label has been written on the disk, the system will > make up some default stuff. So, just seing # /dev/ad6 > and type: , etc plus the line for c: followed by those messages > saying cannot find label is a strong indication that nothing is there. > Has fdisk and disklabel (with a write switch) ever been done on this disk? > I had this disk working in a FreeBSD 4.7 machine. When I installed FreeBSD i created one partition on the disk and it worked without error. This was also strange: When I moved to my new home I took the disk out of the 4.7 machine for transport. When I put it back and booted 4.7 there came the same errors (BAD SUPER BLOCK ...). I then put the drive into a system running Windows 2000 (don't know why I did this) and just startet it. Immediately after that I shut down Win2000 and moved the disk back to the 4.7 machine - booted it - and the disk worked again without error. I have no idea what happend there - I just was happy that all data was still there. Regardz, Robert
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