Summary: Serious problem with a disk

From: Padiyath Kumar <Kumar.Padiyath_at_psi.ch>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:41:57 +0200

  Hallo,
   The following people answered to my question and many thanks. I have to
replace the disk.
   I could not mount the file system from this disk since the disk was
defect. The user is sending
   the disk to a company who is specialised in reading such disks. The
people replied are:

  babu chandra babu
  Selden E Ball Jr.
  Paul LaMadeleine
  Dr. Thomas.Blinn
  alan from Compaq.

  I am giving Blinn's answer:

  Here are some key clues:

        Device Not Ready
        Hard Error Detected
        Target selection timeout

and this one -- cdisk_op_spin -- which means the system was trying to
start the disk spinning and the disk is not responding.

You *might* get lucky if you shut the system down, power cycle it, and
bring it back up -- but then again, you might not.

If the disk will not spin up, then there is no way you can salvage any
data off of it with ANY utility.

If it will spin up, you may find that everything is fine, but you should
NEVER keep "datas are important" on a disk without any backups.

Good luck. You are going to need it. If the disk has failed, you are
going to need to find a specialist who can repair the disk without any
harm to the data, if you are going to get your data back again.

Tom

  My question was:
  ============

>
> Hallo,
> Iam havinfg serious problem with a disk in an XP1000 Workstation.
> I can not read the label or mount the disk. The disk is configured
> with advanced file system. I see the following error in
> /var/adm/messages:
>
> cam_logger: CAM_ERROR packet
> Oct 22 16:25:43 psa014 vmunix: cam_logger: bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> Oct 22 16:25:43 psa014 vmunix: cdisk_rec_error
> Oct 22 16:25:43 psa014 vmunix: Recovery Failed
> Oct 22 16:25:43 psa014 vmunix: Hard Error Detected
> Oct 22 16:25:43 psa014 vmunix: DEC RZ2DC-KA (C) DEC5520
> Oct 22 16:25:43 psa014 vmunix: Active CCB at time of error
> Oct 22 16:25:43 psa014 vmunix: Target selection timeout
> Oct 22 16:25:43 psa014 vmunix: cam_logger: CAM_ERROR packet
> Oct 22 16:25:43 psa014 vmunix: cam_logger: bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> Oct 22 16:25:43 psa014 vmunix: cdisk_op_spin
> Oct 22 16:25:43 psa014 vmunix: Device Not Ready
> Oct 22 16:25:43 psa014 vmunix: Hard Error Detected
> Oct 22 16:25:43 psa014 vmunix: DEC RZ2DC-KA (C) DEC5520
> Oct 22 16:25:43 psa014 vmunix: Active CCB at time of error
> Oct 22 16:25:43 psa014 vmunix: Target selection timeout
> .
> .
> Oct 22 18:03:17 psa014 vmunix: Device will no longer be power managed.
> Oct 22 18:03:17 psa014 vmunix: cam_disk: [0/1/0] Failed to deregister from
> power
> manager (0x1)
>
>
> Then disklabel -r gives the following message:
> ----------------------------------------------
> disklabel: /dev/rrz1a: No such device or address
>
> Is it possible to recover datas from this disk with salvage utility.
> If it is yes, then how I have to proceed?The datas are important.
>
> Any help will be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kumar
  
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