kernel panic(?) trying to copy data off failed drive with dd
Michael P. Soulier
msoulier at digitaltorque.ca
Mon Jun 12 10:48:13 UTC 2006
On 12/06/06 Miroslav Lachman said:
> Greg Lane wrote:
> [...]
> >The machine is running 5.5 pre-release. I can pull the disk and put it
> >in a machine running 6-stable if that will help. I could also install
> >current on some box or another. Whatever will get the data back!!
> >
> >Advice please?!?
>
> Maybe you can try /usr/ports/sysutils/cpdup which can skip read errors.
> I used cpdup few years ago on HDD with bad sectors with success - lose
> only few unreadable files from the middle of disk.
Regardless, file a bug report. The box should never hang, or reboot.
Mike
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Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca>
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