Re: data from kernel.bkbits.net

[Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 04:34:43PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 03:05:24PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > > Attempt to copy the raw drive to /dev/null.  If that works, the
> > > drive is likely okay, but the fs got fsucked up by software. You
> > > might be able to mount the drive on a 2.4.22 machine if you have a
> > > spare. Then you might be able to selectively copy important stuff
> > > to another drive, after which you can make a new file-system as
> > > a "repair".
> >
> > The error messages Larry reported were obviously reported by the
> > hardware, and were **not** filesystem errors.
> >
> > 						- Ted
> 
> Yes but an attempt to read beyond the limits of the physical
> drive will provide you with a lot of **interesting** hardware
> errors. This happens if the file-system gets corrupt.

Yeah, I think Richard may be right.  Anyway, the drive sort of reads
from the raw partition.  It gets a IDE reset and then it reads.  I can
read it a second time with no reset.  Haven't tried a reboot between
reads, hang on, yeah, a reboot brings the errors back.

But, fscking the dd-ed image gets me less errors so I'm trying that 
route to get the data back.
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Larry McVoy              lm at bitmover.com          http://www.bitmover.com/lm