Thank you to everyone @misc that provided support and advice. Especially Joel and Barry.
It turned out that the machine came back on quite fine after rebooting and without having to perform anything special. It went through fsck without complaining and I've been able to make backups of my small pieces of precious data. I will continue to use the machine for experiments and learning only, however. Sorry for the noise. If it was not for the softraid specific complaints from the machine, I would not have taken the issue up here @misc. Cheers, Erling On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 01:13:16AM +0100, Erling Westenvik wrote: > I have an old laptop configured with softraid encryption using a USB > keydisk. The machine was never intended to be used for anything more > than just testing. However, I started putting a few cvs repositories > on it and slowly the machine became somewhat important. > > Today, when doing a cvs import of a little programming project on my > web server, the ssh connection died in the middle of the transfer. I > have not tried to restart it. This is whats on the screen right now. > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > 3187832; cn 820 tn 230 sn 42), retrying > wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 4 > wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4 > wd0d: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 6890352 of 6890352-6890479 > (wd0 bn 1 3187832; cn 820 tn 230 sn 42), retrying > wd0d: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 6890391 of 6890352-6890479 > (wd0 bn 1 3187871; cn 820 tn 231 sn 18), retrying > wd0d: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 6890391 of 6890352-6890479 > (wd0 bn 1 3187871; cn 820 tn 231 sn 18), retrying > softraid0: i/o error on block 6890352 > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > > Kind of self explaining: old machine with faulty disk! I do have backups > but would like to have a copy of some recent commits. > > Switching console gives me a login prompt but after entering a user name > and pressing enter the machine just hangs. The machine will answer to > ping but not ssh. > > My question is: > > Do I have any options other than trying to reboot? Optionally into > single user mode? > > Cheers, > > Erling
