On 2014-08-11, Stefan Olsson <stur...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have a hard drive that crashed in some way or the other, and I'd like to see > if I can access it, and ideally retrieve some of the files. I've connected it > to a USB-bridge, but I fear it is beyond repair as it gets an error when I try > to do disklabel: # disklabel sd1disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Input/output > error > > I also tried scan_ffs in different ways:# scan_ffs /dev/rsd1c scan_ffs: read: > Input/output error# scan_ffs /dev/sd1c > scan_ffs: /dev/sd1c: No medium found > # scan_ffs /dev/sd1 > scan_ffs: /dev/sd1: No such file or directory > # scan_ffs > /dev/sd1a > scan_ffs: /dev/sd1a: No medium found > # scan_ffs /dev/rsd1a > scan_ffs: > /dev/rsd1a: No medium found > > -Should I just give up, or are there other options? > Some info:# sysctl hw.disknameshw.disknames=sd0:1ea2ee1a14a6352d,cd0:,sd1:
What does 'fdisk sd1' say? Have you used this USB bridge before? Does it work with a known-good disk? FWIW (commercial software though), r-studio can read OpenBSD FFS. Might be worth a try with the demo of that if you have access to a (Windows|Mac|Linux) box to run it on.
