In the last episode (Mar 11), Daniel Lang said: > C. Kukulies wrote on Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:36:52PM +0100: > [..] > > The disk boots into FreeBSD but already at power on time the disk > > does seek retries or some recalibration noise. > > > > The question is what else can I do to recover the data. Put it in > > the icebox? Turn the computer upside down? > > Put it into another box running a working FreeBSD and enough > disk-space to contain all the contents of the damaged disk. > > Check if you can still read the disklabel (just do "disklabel ad1s1 > (or whatever your device is)). > > If you can read the disklabel, grab the contents of each partition > with dd, use the 'conv=noerror,sync' options to fill unreadable > sectors with zeros.
Also, if it looks like a single bad area of the disk, try a dd starting a couple megs past the bad spot (with iseek+oseek) if the drive stops responding after it hits the bad area. I recovered data from a failed disk this way. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"