Re: [SLE] harddisk crash -> needs surgery-> end_request I/O error, dev 03:01 sector 6928

From: Alex Angerhofer (alex_at_chem.ufl.edu)
Date: 08/06/04

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    Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 07:50:40 -0400 (EDT)
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    On 6 Aug 2004, Filip Sergeys wrote:

    > Hello,
    >
    > Basically our suse is not booting anymore with a kernel panic: VFS: Unable to
    > mount root fs on 03:01
    >
    > ...
    > Is there still a way to recover that disk? Even if it means with a hexeditor
    > (I am willing learn, who can initiate me into the deep secrets of
    > filesystems)
    > This disk gets backed up every night, but we got stroke by a lightening during
    > the day cutting of all power. When rebooting this was the result. Guess what,
    > the sales guy's just saved a bunch of important stuff on it and they want I
    > back :-(

    Have you tried ddrescue, yet? It is on the DVD. The rpm is called ddrescue
    while the command is called dd_rescue. Type 'dd_rescue -h' for usage
    info.

    Good luck, Alex. 

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