[TriLUG] New Thinkpad T23!

[Tom Bryan]

On Wednesday 01 January 2003 09:43 pm, Jason Tower wrote:
> if your thinkpad has onboard ethernet, probably the easiest thing to do is
> to image the entire hard drive with G4U (get it from freshmeat), that way
> you always restore it if necessary.  it's an all-or-nothing affair, but
> it's completely safe and if you totally screw things up it allows you to
> restore the disk to it's previous state with ease.  i use it all the time
> for stuff like this.
Cool.  I remember that the guys at my last job rolled their own floppy distro 
based on tomsrtbt to do something like this.  

I ran it (had to set up an FTPD first...used a guest wu-ftpd account), and I 
now have a 10+ GB gzip file on my main workstation.  The only problem is that 
I have nowhere to test that I can recover it. :-/  I'm especially concerned 
because I let it run for a few hours, and when I came back, it had some 
warnings on the screen.  I found most of them in the msgbuf file before 
shutting down G4U.  The scary parts were the dd error and the rm "not found" 
error.  If you've run G4U before, does this look normal (mostly pasted from 
msgbuf)?  It's encouraging that the drive is a "30 GB drive," and the final 
dd output indicates that over 30,000,000,000 bytes were transferred.

wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <IC25N030ATCS04-0>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing
wd0: 28615 MB, 16383 cyl, 15 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 58605120 sectors
wd0: 32-bit data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
pciide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100) (using DMA 
data transfers)
.
.
.
md0: internal 1440 KB image area
wd0: no disk label
boot device: fd0
root on md0a dumps on md0b
root file system type: ffs
wd0: no disk label
wd0d: error reading fsbn 58605056 of 58605056-58605183 (wd0 bn 58605056; cn 
62015 tn 13 sn 62), retrying
wd0: (id not found)
wd0d: error reading fsbn 58605056 of 58605056-58605183 (wd0 bn 58605056; cn 
62015 tn 13 sn 62), retrying
wd0: (id not found)
wd0d: error reading fsbn 58605056 of 58605056-58605183 (wd0 bn 58605056; cn 
62015 tn 13 sn 62), retrying
wd0: (id not found)
wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 2
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33) (using DMA 
data transfers)
wd0d: error reading fsbn 58605056 of 58605056-58605183 (wd0 bn 58605056; cn 
62015 tn 13 sn 62), retrying
wd0: (id not found)
wd0d: error reading fsbn 58605120 of 58605056-58605183 (wd0 bn 58605120; cn 
62016 tn 0 sn 0), retrying
wd0: (id not found)
wd0d: error reading fsbn 58605120 of 58605056-58605183 (wd0 bn 58605120; cn 
62016 tn 0 sn 0)wd0: (id not found)

dd: /dev/rwd0d: Input/output error

28615+0 records in
28615+0 records out
30005002240 bytes transferred in 7720.913 secs
226 transfer comlpete
10486151209 bytes sent in 2:08:28
...some other wu-ftpd info about the session here
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rm: not found
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---Tom