What happens if you remove the external SCSI disk?  Does the system work
again?

What is the drive ID of the internal SCSI disk and the external SCSI disk?

What kernel are you using?  There are some interesting games played with
SCSI device ID's and disk sd numbers...

At 11:14 AM 1/11/01 -0600, Ruibiao Qiu wrote:
>Hi all
>
>I just messed up my root disk when adding an external SCSI disk.
>It now shows:
>...
>root on sd1a dump on sd1b
>/: bad dir ino 14 at offset 0: mangled entry
>panic: bad dir
>...
>and it drops back to db> prompt.
>
>Is there any quick way to fix this problem without replacing
>hard drive physically?  Thanks.
>
>          Regards
>
>            Ruibiao
>
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