Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:01:25 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: shritis@gmx.de (Robert Neumann) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HD error: BAD SUPER BLOCK Message-ID: <200311250001.hAP01P304564@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3FC28651.4060505@gmx.de> from "Robert Neumann" at Nov 24, 2003 11:29:37 PM
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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. Sounds like you made a visit to 'The Twilight Zone'. ////jerry > > Regardz, > > Robert >
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