It looks like it's working. I had SpinRite work it over (took 12 hours) and then tried a few other tools (gpart and fdisk) without much luck as the partitionmap was missing. In the end I did a manual reconstruction of the partitionmap in fdisk (I remembered only having one partition on the drive) and I tried mounting first with a lot of the usual errors (probably because it was part of the LVM).....after a reboot the disk came online....I'm crossing my fingers it will work long enough to get things off the drive
I'm now copying all the files with cp to a new drive (I'm dropping the use of LVM but staying with XFS)....it's taking sometime and I did get some errors initially about some inode problems, but it looks like it's working. I'll see in the morning. thanks for your help anders _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users