Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brtph3!batpa1!cadnews From: scalera@batpa15.bnr.ca (Eric Scalera) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: BAD EXTERNAL DISK - HELP Message-ID: <1990Dec18.142147.3778@bnr.ca> Date: 18 Dec 90 14:21:47 GMT Sender: scalera@batpa15 Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 26 Originator: scalera@batpa15 I have been unsuccessful in trying to mount an external drive to a DN4500. This drive stores all the products located in my authorized area. Apollo is telling me my disk might be forever hosed. Errors: When trying to mtvol I get the message cannot mtvol ecc error in sector id field. I ran lsyserr and got a whole page of disk errors for Phys daddr = 1: ecc error in sector id field. I also ran disk_err and recieved info on the 1k block with the error. Apparently the 1k block is at daddr 1 which is were sysboot is kept This is not being uses as a bootable disk, but I'm sure the VTOC manager uses this block when mounting the disk. I really would like to slvage this disk. It has a lot of vital info on it that has not been responsibly backed up. -- Rick Scalera #include "BNR does not share my opinions. I wouldn't be an MSS if it did"