kernel panic(?) trying to copy data off failed drive with dd

[Michael P. Soulier]

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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