Fw: [MLB-WIRELESS] HDD question

[Lincoln Smith]

From: Lincoln Smith 
To: Alfred Shippen 
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] HDD question


nah it stopped even coming up with a shell prompt..the drive no longer boots, and it most definitely can't be mounted as linux won't start (hangs at the partition listing in kernel startup before it kicks into the init process)

fdisk seems to be unable to see the drive.

That's what has me stumped...the IBM diskcheck software (which creates it's own boot floppy) seems to be able to access the drive fine but everything else throws a hissy fit.

Cheers
Lincoln Smith
dagdamor at optushome.com.au
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alfred Shippen 
  To: Lincoln Smith ; MelbWireless 
  Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 4:30 PM
  Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] HDD question


  Does it come up with a shell prompt at all? 

  if so you may be able to run fsck
  if the superblock is corrupted,, you may be able to get access to a back-up superblock by running

  fsck -t ext2 -b 8193 /dev/fubar

  This is right out of my  Red Hat 'Unleashed' guide, I have used it before to recover succsessfully from a similar situation.

  Failing that you may have to fdisk and reformat!

  If you want to re-format the drive you can run fdisk under windows and to remove the master boot record

  run fdisk /mbr
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Lincoln Smith 
    To: MelbWireless 
    Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 3:15 PM
    Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] HDD question


    Heya

    I have this 2GB laptop drive that used to be the system disk for my firewall.  One day it got rebooted by accident, and it cracked the @#*@ saying it was missing a superblock, then it just refused to even look at the disk.  Suffice to say it seems to be no longer useable.  No computer or OS will recognise it (although it shows up in the BIOS).  Windows won't look at it while linux hangs on the partition listing during Kernel startup.  That said when i run the IBM disk tool on it (It's an IBM drive) it says the drive is fine.  It reads and writes to it with no problems.  I can even low level format it and zero all the contents, check for bad sectors you name it it works.

    It's got me stumped...Any ideas?

    Cheers
    Lincoln Smith
    dagdamor at optushome.com.au
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