Camcontrol not changing modepage

[Kenneth D. Merry]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 20:35:42 -0500, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
> > 
> > Your best bet is to write to that individual sector.  Since the drive seems
> > to support write reallocation, that should allow it to remap that sector,
> > and the rest of the drive should be useable. 
> > 
> > One way to try to pull all of the accessible data off the drive is phk's
> > 'recoverdisk' program, located in /usr/src/tools/tools/recoverdisk.
> > 
> > It will pull as many blocks as it can off the drive.
> > 
> > You could pull off as many blocks as you can into a file that is an image
> > of the drive, and then dd that image back over the drive itself.
> > 
> > recoverdisk may be a little easier to deal with.
> > 
> 	I appreciate the help, but it didn't seem to help/work/etc. I
> just newfs'd it, but thanks again.

Glad you got it working, sorry you lost your data.  Keep in mind that newfs
doesn't overwrite every sector on the disk, but as you write files and fill
up the disk, you should end up writing every sector.

> 	(Personal question, are you related to a Karen Merry from MI and
> FL?)

Nope.

Ken
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Kenneth Merry
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