off topic - disk crash

2004-03-11 Thread C. Kukulies
Today an important (no backup of course) 46 GB IBM Deskstar IDE disk crashed. It has a FreeBSD 4.8 on it with important data and programs. Yes, shame on me that I didn't care about doing backups on it but it has happened. I evend tend to expend the bucks to get it recovered but a little prediagnos

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-11 Thread Daniel Lang
Hi, 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 do

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-11 Thread Dan Nelson
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 da

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-11 Thread Marcus Beaman
/IRMD/ENS NOC 503-378-3627 - <---REPLY---> >Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:21:28 +0100 >From: Daniel Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "C. Kukulies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: off topic - disk crash >&

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-12 Thread Søren Schmidt
C. Kukulies wrote: Today an important (no backup of course) 46 GB IBM Deskstar IDE disk crashed. It has a FreeBSD 4.8 on it with important data and programs. Yes, shame on me that I didn't care about doing backups on it but it has happened. I evend tend to expend the bucks to get it recovered but a

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-12 Thread Clifton Royston
> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:36:52 +0100 (CET) > From: "C. Kukulies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: off topic - disk crash > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Today an important (no backup of course) 46 GB IBM Deskstar > IDE

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Clifton Royston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Today an important (no backup of course) 46 GB IBM Deskstar > > IDE disk crashed. > This specific line of drives is infamous for a failure rate that's at > least a full order of magnitude above the industry average for ATA > drives. Google a bit for

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-14 Thread Christoph P. Kukulies
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 03:58:16PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Clifton Royston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Today an important (no backup of course) 46 GB IBM Deskstar > > > IDE disk crashed. > > This specific line of drives is infamous for a failure rate that's at > > least a full ord

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-14 Thread Christoph P. Kukulies
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 12:25:02PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > >Thanks for all the helpful tips so far. It is a DLTA 307045 (3.5") > >Don't know whether this is a 75GXP. > > It is one of the dreaded models experience shows that all models after > this has some

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-14 Thread Søren Schmidt
Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: Thanks for all the helpful tips so far. It is a DLTA 307045 (3.5") Don't know whether this is a 75GXP. It is one of the dreaded models experience shows that all models after this has some kind of problems, no wonder they sold out :) I'm getting either these: ad2: TI

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-14 Thread Søren Schmidt
Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: It is now dumping and I'm at 2.7 GB meanwhile. No more errors since the last one at LBA=67 . Are these LBS identical to the block #? Yes. Maybe I'll give it another try (when this pass is through) and dump from the beginning. I'm about to get me a second identica

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-14 Thread Christoph P. Kukulies
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:42:18PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > >the whole image including partition table so that I will not have to > >scan the disk for the start of the filesystems. > > Dont get another DTLA/AVER IBM disk, you will just have the same problem

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-14 Thread soralx
> With certain directories or files I get READ_DMA timeouts and also the > system hangs totally when a certain type of error occurs. > > ad2: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retryinmg (2 retries left) LBA=24703729 > ad2: WARNING - READ_DMA Interrupt was seen but but timeout fired > LBA=24703729 ad2: WARNING - R

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-14 Thread Clifton Royston
> From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: off topic - disk crash > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 03:58:16PM +0100, Dag-Erling

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-28 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Christoph P. Kukulies wrote this message on Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 13:04 +0100: > Some time ago I wrote a little program to scan a disk for the start of > a FS. Unfortunately that program is also on the crashed disk :-O Since you are on 4.8-R you can take a look at ffsrecov. I wrote this program a