XFS: recovery failed/IO error :(

[regavoga]

Hi all!

I sat there yesterday on my computer, and watched some old pictures, and while i listened to my music... the whole thing just freezed. I booted up my gentoo livecd and tried to mount my partition (after it would'nt boot ofcourse) but got the following message:

livecd root # mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/gentoo
XFS mounting filesystem sda4
Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: sda4 (dev: sda4)
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 260726858
I/O error in filesystem ("sda4") meta-data dev sda4 block 0x3172a02
("xlog_recover_do..(read#1)") error 5 buf count 512
XFS: log mount/recovery failed: error 5
XFS: log mount failed
mount: /dev/sda4: can't read superblock

Uh-oh.

To read more logs: http://heim.olemartin.org/logs/

Anyone know how to fix this without trashing my harddrive?

Thanx!

[antidrugue]

While booting from your Gentoo Live CD, keep your partitions unmounted and use the following utilities to check and repair your XFS partitions : xfs_check and xfs_repair.

[regavoga]

i tried xfs_repair, if you read the logs, you'll see that. no go. what to do next? reformat the harddrive and start a backup routine?

[antidrugue]

i tried xfs_repair, if you read the logs, you'll see that. no go. what to do next?

Well, sorry I didn't take a look... And what about xfs_check ? Does it says anything usefull ?

Perhaps something is physically wrong with this drive. Did you have any problem in the past ?

reformat the harddrive and start a backup routine?

Maybe someone else here has other ideas, but personaly I just strated using XFS and don't have much experience with it.