In message <200004120435.OAA28389@balrog.supp.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au>, Simon Bu
rge writes:
>On recentish version of NetBSD there should be disklabel backups in
>/var/backups if you can still get to /var.  When something similar
>happened to me a year or two ago I wrote a small program to scan the
>entire disk looking for the superblock magic number in each sector.
>I'll see if I can find it if you want...

No problem, Kevin P. Neal already sent it.

SHEESH!

One of the pins on the SCSI connector my tape drive was on was bent enough
that the connector fit anyway.  Now I'm back to the other problem I thought
was long-gone, not being able to get a pcic to work right on a 440LX
motherboard.  :)  Boy, this is fun.

I will say, though:  I'm *VERY* glad this is happening on a NetBSD box.
We have great disaster-recovery tools.  One thing I wish we had, that BSDI
has, is bootable CD's with a "complete" live filesystem.

-s