data recovery

[Ken Moffat]

Shawn Tayler wrote:

>Ooooooo....
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>I like this one....
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>Shawn
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>On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:15:18 -0800 Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> prattled on about:
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>>try turning off dma using hdparm.
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>>or from recovery mode:
>>fsck -A -V ; echo == $? ==
>>see what it returns. If less than 4 you're ok.
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>>If that doesn't work:
>>fsck -t ext2 -b 8193 /dev/hda
>>                        16385
>>                        24577
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>>the spacing is 8192 assuming defaults. These are locations of backup 
>>superblocks.
>>(Linux Unleashed, 4th edition, pg. 580)
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Did it work?