Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 07:44:49 -0700 From: John Scharles <johns@cruz.isle.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: disk Hard Error Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970711074449.0083d7e0@mail.isle.net>
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I posted this the other day on the hardware list, and didn't get much in the way of encourging replies. Does anyone here have any suggestions on how to get data off what is probably a toasted unix hard drive? (i.e. like how to force a mount so I could get around the couple bad sectors that fsck reports) ********** original post ********** On powering up our FreeBSD 2.1.6 this morning we were greeted with a "hard error reading block such&such" message. This is a Dell machine with a built in IDE controller. After looking through the handbook and archives I haven't found much information about trying to recover files off a dying drive (it has the /usr directory, which of course has some files that are nowhere else!). Is there way I can look at or force a mount? Also I saw some reference to a full drive causing this type of error...could this be the cause of a hard error? Thanks John
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