Re: XFS - hard drive dying

[A JM <vbtalent@xxxxxxxxx>]

So the dd_rhelp command line for the entire drive to recover to
another drive would read like? (dd_rhelp /dev/VGforMyth/video
/dev/hdc/video)

Does this need to be done in "single user" mode? 

Thanks for some hope....

AJM,


On 8/12/05, Christian <evil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A JM schrieb:
> > Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: dm-0 (dev: dm-0)
> > hdd: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hdd: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=371098048, 
> > high=22,
> > low=1999296, sector=371098047
> 
> since it really looks like a bad drive, try to get your data to another
> (good) harddrive with "dd" or better "dd_rescue" [1]. then use a current
> version of xfsprogs [2] to check/repair the rescued data.
> 
> Christian.
> 
> [1] http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
> [2] ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/
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