Re: data from kernel.bkbits.net

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Mon Nov 24 2003 - 15:35:41 EST


On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 03:05:24PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Attempt to copy the raw drive to /dev/null. If that works, the
> drive is likely okay, but the fs got fsucked up by software. You
> might be able to mount the drive on a 2.4.22 machine if you have a
> spare. Then you might be able to selectively copy important stuff
> to another drive, after which you can make a new file-system as
> a "repair".

The error messages Larry reported were obviously reported by the
hardware, and were **not** filesystem errors.

- Ted
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