kernel panic(?) trying to copy data off failed drive with dd
Miroslav Lachman
000.fbsd at quip.cz
Mon Jun 12 09:16:33 UTC 2006
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?!?
>
> Cheers,
> Greg
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.
Miroslav Lachman
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