Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:18:17 +0700 (ICT) From: pirat <pirat@access.inet.co.th> To: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wd0s1e error message Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006270953300.5205-100000@parwati.oaep.go.th> In-Reply-To: <200004261226.IAA20953@world.std.com>
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hi sirs,
first of all, i appreciate all of your efforts passing to me for this
particular subject.
i have just finished taring back and forth between my old hard disk and
this new one luckily since all of data at /home are not destroyed.
but some of /usr/bin /bin and /var, even /usr/X11r6/bin, can not survive.
my remaining question is that one can use the old hard disk that get error
message such that '... soft error reading fsnb ...' or not.
presently, i reinstall freebsd 4.0 with full capacity to that one. once
the installation finish, booting up, i get just one clue of defect during
the startup. it says
ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# ... status=59 error=10
.
.
.
vm_fault: pager read error, pid 155 (ldconfig)
pid 155 (ldconfig) uid 0, exited on signal 11 ....
anyway, i install many ports and try to use that hard disk for
experingting purpose.
thanks in advance for any reply. and i real thank you for helping me in
backing my old hard disk very much indeed.
with best regards,
pirat sriyotha
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:52:35 +0700 (ICT)
> > From: pirat <pirat@access.inet.co.th>
>
> > > those kinds of errors often mean that the disk itself is dying. Make
> > > sure you have good backups (and remember that some of your data may
> > > have *already* been damaged).
> >
> > i afraid so. since only just a single ll takes a noticeable pause before
> > displaying result.
>
> I'm actually not sure what that means. [I assume you meant 'ls'.]
> It's *possible* that something in software is the problem. But I
> think hardware failure is more likely, and if so it will get
> progressively worse.
>
> > i have just finished fsck -y /dev/wd0s1e and also fsck -p /dev/wd0s1e and
> > restart my machine. but i have never got an idea of backup. would you
> > please once again point me how to backup ?
>
> Actually, there are a lot of ways to do backups. There's a whole
> section on the topic in the FreeBSD handbook. The traditional answers
> are dump(8) and restore(8), but they work on whole filesystems, which
> may be more data than you want to deal with. I tend to use tar(1) for
> my backups, although lately I've started experimenting with backing up
> by using ISO9660 images.
>
> > once again many thanks in advance.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
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