HD problems after power outage

[backdoc]

Ahhhh!!!!  Slow down there, Fast Eddie :).  I got it working!!!

Basically, I repeated this process about 10 times:

o boot -s
o fsck /dev/da1s1e (which failed every time)
o reboot
o ran adaptec utility
o repeat

Finally, I tried:

o boot -s
o fsck -p  (bingo!!)
o mount -u /
o mount -a

Then, I did "mount" to see what was mounted.  Everything was mounted. 
Life is good again.

I didn't completely give up because I was able to mount the drive with 
errors and see the contents.  I had given up hope of salvaging the 
drive, but not of recovering the data[1].  Perseverence paid off.

The dumb part in all of this was that my freebsd-questions subscriber 
address is hosted on the FreeBSD box that was down.  So, I couldn't get 
replies to my request for help until I had already gotten my box back up.

Thanks for your attempt to help me.  I do appreciate it.

Darren

[1] No.  I don't have a backups.  I guess I like living on the edge :).



Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:36:21PM -0600, backdoc wrote:
> 
>>I lost power at my house for a moment this morning which is causing some 
>>problems with my second hard drive.
> 
> 
> [ fsck tale of woe...]
> 
> 
>>I try to rerun fsck, but this pattern only repeats.  Is there a way to 
>>fix this?? Or, am I toast?
> 
> 
> Toasted to a nice golden brown on both sides.  You've had a head crash
> on that second drive, which has created a scratch right across a
> number of disk sectors.  Time to chuck that disk in the bin and
> restore your backups[1] onto a new one.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew	
> 
> [1] You *do* have backups, don't you?
>