Q: optical disk I/O error - fsck reports bad summary file

From: Claudia Burg <cac_at_lambda.la.asu.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 97 19:26:23 MST

Hi all

Before giving up on the data, I was wondering if there is any way to
recover data off an optical disk when the summary file has been
corrupted. (A search of the archives didn't reveal much).

The messages we get are an I/O error when we try to mount it
and an fsck told us it was unmounted cleanly but the summary file
was bad - as well as a number of blocks - altho not the superblock.

Any hints of how - if possible - to recover the data would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Claudia


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Received on Tue Jun 24 1997 - 04:33:57 NZST