Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 11:43:42 -0500 From: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <garys@opusnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to recover data? - Formatted, Fdisk'd, and disklabeled ad1, now ad0 with FreeBSD is messed up Message-ID: <42F78BBE.7050908@mkproductions.org> In-Reply-To: <3cll3cjvmv.l3c@mail.opusnet.com> References: <42F65ECF.20307@mkproductions.org> <7dy87djsqe.87d@mail.opusnet.com> <42F6C945.1050703@mkproductions.org> <i1u0i1jca6.0i1@mail.opusnet.com> <42F6F046.6070504@mkproductions.org> <3cll3cjvmv.l3c@mail.opusnet.com>
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Hi Gary. It turns out that this was a BIOS problem. Somehow after running PowerMax, the boot order on the hard drives got switched in the BIOS automatically. I changed it back, and FreeBSD booted. Thanks to Ruben for that idea. Thank you very much for your help as well. I will go try to copy the data back to the 60GB drive now, and see if I get any DMA errors. -Mark Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> writes: > > >>Mounting /dev/ad0s1a showed what was my root partition before. I tried mounting ad0s1b, and it gave "Incorrect Super >>Block". I went on to guess ad0s1f, mounted it, and it was /usr. Appears like /usr/home/myuser/ exists and my files are >>there. > > > "b" is almost always a swap sub-partition which will have more-or-less > random data on it and so can be expected to give "Incorrect Super Block". > But it was smart to try them all. Glad to hear you found your files. > > >>I'm not sure given the info that I have what the proper way to get FreeBSD back up and running again, and to make sure >>ad1 is ready is. > > > Again, if possible (and it sounds like it is now), try not to > write to ad0 until you get a copy of your data on another medium. > Use the Fixit CD or buy a 1 GB disk if you have to, and install > FreeBSD on that and then use it to get the 60GB disk in shape and > your data back on it. THEN try to fix ad0. > > You might also consider consolodating your most important data > so you can back it up on CDs or DVDs. I bought a used tape > drive for 10$ and now keep important stuff on several CDs different > brands and types of CD and 4mm and 8mm tapes. > > >>I replied to a reply on the list a few minutes ago saying that if I mount /dev/ad1s1d, it shows the full 55G size and >>51G avail that is supposed to be the ad1 60GB drive. I'm not sure why that's "d" though. > > > It sounded like he decyphered it from your previous msg. > Your idea of trying to mount them all sounds better. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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