hard disk recover

[Lewis Thompson]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 04:25:56PM -0700, freebsd at wcubed.net wrote:
> # dd if=/dev/ad1s1a bs=64k
> dd: /dev/ad1s1a: Input/output error

Try:

dd if=/dev/ad1s1a of=? conv=noerror,sync bs=64k

  I recently ``recovered'' a disk from this error.  The sync is
critical, trust me ;)  (check the man page for what it does)

-lewiz.

-- 
I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.  --Bob Dylan, 1964.
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