[H-GEN] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide1(22,1)

[Geoff Shang]

Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:

>> /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1: data
>>
>> This would seem to confirm your theory.
>
> It would.  I really hope you have not run fsck on this.  I still think
> that the filesystem signature is corrupt, which probably does not bode
> well for the data, or that the filesystem is very corrupt and just needs
> a check run on an alternative superblock---Rob's advice on this is
> correct.

I haven't run fsck on it yet.  I like the idea of making a duplicate 
filesystem to mess with, but not sure where I have room to put it.

> I wonder if dd'ing the partition to /dev/null will highlight any disk
> errors and help you rule in or out disk corruption?

# dd if=/dev/hdc1 of=/dev/null
1951424+0 records in
1951424+0 records out

Seems ok.  I personally think something caused the other computer to write 
crap to the drive.  I've not yet pulled the other drive to see if it's ok.

Geoff.