data recovery

[Shawn Tayler]

Don't know yet.  The drive in question, hasn't failed yet....  But the
solution seems elegant if nothing else...

Shawn

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:47:19 -0800 Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com>
prattled on about:

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