RE: [SLE] DMA killed IDE disk

From: Matthew Stringer (qube_at_firstnet.co.uk)
Date: 08/20/05

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Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:19:54 +0100

    I'd already formatted the original SCSI discs in view to copying the data
    back.

    FSCK couldn't rebuild the journal and thus the disk appeared unformatted.

    PITA really as it took over 12 hours to copy the files to the IDE disk and 8
    hours to run FSCK, all a waste of time in the end.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Hans du Plooy [mailto:hansdp-lists@sagacit.com]
    Sent: 20 August 2005 21:23
    To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
    Subject: Re: [SLE] DMA killed IDE disk

    Matthew Stringer wrote:

    >Ran FSCK but it couldn't see a filesystem, ran fsck.reiserfs which told me
    to
    >use the --rebuild-tables switch.
    >
    >Done this but the contents of the disk have been destroyed in the process.
    >
    >
    You probably got a damage partition table. Something similar happened
    to me when I put more memory in my old P-III notebook, and it wouldn't
    boot. Took out the mem and it still woudln't boot, gave me a kernel
    panic, can't mount root filesystem. Followed the instructions, was
    told to run the same command, which also hosed my filesystem. The
    directories were all still there, but they were empty. There was
    however a lost+found directory which contained a whole bunch of randomly
    named directories which had all the data in. So that's your only
    hope. Unfortunately I only realised this when I did a rm -rf * and got
    suspicious when it took very long, canceled it to see what it was
    working so hard on.

    It sounds to me like you had a hardware problem of some kind. Buggy IDE
    firmware possibly, bad IDE cable possibly. Or maybe you just suffered a
    power surge at the worst possible moment.

    Kind regards
    Hans du Plooy
    SagacIT (Pty) Ltd
    hansdp at sagacit dot com 

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