Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:51:43 +1000 From: Greg Lane <greg.lane@internode.on.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: kernel panic(?) trying to copy data off failed drive with dd Message-ID: <20060612055143.GA10925@router.lane.family>
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G'day everyone,
I have a 250 GB SATA disk with one regular FreeBSD parition
that is obviously in some distress.
I can mount the partition, but any attempt to fsck it gives (I think)
a kernel panic. I say I think because sometimes it hangs forever,
sometimes it reboots. One of the panic messages (at one point or
another, sorry I can't be precise) was in "initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2".
Errors on the console have been like "FAILURE read_dma timed out" etc.
When it hangs, the console doesn't always give an error, it just hangs.
I commented out the drive in fstab so I could boot and started to dd
the entire disk to an image so that I can try and mount the image, fsck
it and salvage what I can. However, when I get to the bad parts of the
disk the machine hangs. I copied the first 160 GB or so, then it hung.
I have since recopied the first part of the disk and am trying to get the
last part. Recently I have been trying:
dd if=/dev/ad4s1d conv=noerror,sync bs=512 skip=333184000 of=data1-image-p2
I was hoping noerror would skip over the bad parts of the disk, but the
machine invariably hangs.
(1) Is there anyway to stop it hanging on bad reads of the disk and just
return an error, which noerror can skip over? I am perfectly willing
to patch the kernel or whatever it takes to get this working. While I
have a backup, it is a month or so old. I can invest some time now to
save having to regenerate the last month's work. (Fortunately this is
the less active disk! I have two other 250GB drives which would have
been far worse to lose. They are now backed up to the present day!)
(2) Will dump/restore help me? Will dump skip over the errors
any better? Do I need an fsck'ed file system before I dump?
It seems to my uneducated eye that this is a read error that hangs the
kernel before it ever gets passed to the user program (dd) so
dump/restore will work no better. But I don't really no.
The machine is running 5.5 pre-release. I can pull the disk and put it
in a machine running 6-stable if that will help. I could also install
current on some box or another. Whatever will get the data back!!
Advice please?!?
Cheers,
Greg
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