Congratulations!
	Any chance you could write up an FAQ entry describing the
	process? :)

		David/absolute

Q:  Why do ducks have flat feet?	Q:  Why do elephants have flat feet?
A:  To stamp out forest fires.		A:  To stamp out flaming ducks.

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Peter Seebach wrote:

> So, I have a pair of ~6GB EIDE drives.
> 
> I have them under BSD/OS, running as a "splice" (like ccd, only a different
> guy wrote it).
> 
> Unfortunately, BSD/OS has no DMA support.
> 
> So.
> 
> I move them.  I move them to an alpha, with a Promise plug-in EIDE card.
> 
> Initial state:  Nothing works.
> I get a beta driver, and a friendly guy sends me a patch to make it work
> right on my alpha.
> 
> I now see the disks.
> 
> If I ccd them, I end up with a disk.  Unfortunately, the superblock is about
> 32 blocks in.  If I build a label for it, I see the superblock, and I can
> mount, but fsck dies horribly.  ls works, ls -l doesn't.
> 
> So, I rework the disk labels to use 32 block cylinders, and (thanks to Chris
> Demetriou) manage to create new labels that show partitions starting "one
> cylinder" in.
> 
> I ccd these.
> 
> The resulting partition fsck's almost-okay:
> 
> # fsck /dev/ccd0c
> ** /dev/rccd0c
> ** Last Mounted on /mnt
> ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
> ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
> ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
> ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
> ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
> FREE BLK COUNT(S) WRONG IN SUPERBLK
> SALVAGE? [yn] y
> 
> BLK(S) MISSING IN BIT MAPS
> SALVAGE? [yn] y
> 
> SUMMARY INFORMATION BAD
> SALVAGE? [yn] y
> 
> 132202 files, 1854200 used, 1427180 free (19092 frags, 176011 blocks, 0.6%
> fragmentation)
> 
> MARK FILE SYSTEM CLEAN? [yn] y
> 
> 
> ***** FILE SYSTEM MARKED CLEAN *****
> 
> ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
> 
> 
> It mounts.
> 
> It lists.
> 
> Files pass checksum.
> 
> And it took me about 20 minutes less to figure this all out than it would have
> to newfs and restore.  Yee-hah!
> 
> The depressing thing is that nfs-exporting this to my other box gets better
> performance than I got having the drives physically in the other box.  Yow.
> 
> -s
>