Subject: root partition hosed
To: NetBSD Mailing List <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Josh Hope <otaku@unixgeek.ml.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/09/1998 13:28:21
I came home from work yesterday to find my kernel had dropped into debug
mode for some *strange* reason. I couldn't figure it out. So I did a
'cont' in the debugger, and watched it do a kernel dump and restart.
I rebooted, and ran fsck -p in singleuser (of course) just to make sure
nothing bad happened. Then I got a SCSI read error (the only thing I can
remember about it was that it was a 'medium' error) while running fsck.
It said to re-run it, so I ran it fsck -y. This time, it gave out a lot
of medium scsi read errors, and started to spit out blocks that were
unreadable. It said it marked the filesystem as clean, but it said again
to run fsck yet another time. So, I ran it -p again. Then all heck broke
loose.
It started at offset 100 or so, and fsck spit out a sleu of errors
containing the offset number. I left the computer for a while, to wait
for it to stop. I came back, and it was at the 5 millionth offset, so I
just restarted.
I booted into Mac OS to see if the partition was accessable from the
Instaler, but it was giving scsi read errors. Also, I tried Booting
again, but it was *also* giving scsi read errors.
Now, I have hardly touched this NetBSD partition in a while. The last
thing I installed was months ago. I was even *away* when this all
happened! It's as if the thing just "gave up" after being on continously
for a year.
What I'm asking for are any suggestions on what happened, or what to do
to retrieve in the least *some* information from this hosed partition.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks a lot,
Josh