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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:35:14 -0700
From: randyk <randyk@com>
To: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>
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Subject: Re: REPOST: Adding HD
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Hi,

Possibilities that I've experienced:

1. Drive is defective (most likely, have had it more then twice).
2. Motherboard/IDE controller problems (less then likely).
3. IDE Cable (happens rarely).

Take care,
Randy Katz

On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 09:04:07AM -0400, Roman Katsnelson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am not sure if this message got through the first time... If it did,
> then I'm sorry for the repost... :
> 
> 
> >Hi,
> 
> >I am _still_ struggling with this upgrade...
> 
> >I went to http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ and neither of
> >the /stand/sysinstall methods (dedicated and not) worked. Nor did I get
> >any telling error messages, all it said was:
> 
> >Can't mount /dev/wd1e on /usr1: Invalid argument
> 
> >Then I did it commandline, and during the newfs, it died with this:
> 
> >wd1c: hard error writing fsbn 5309072 of 5309072-5309087 (wd1 bn
> >5309072; cn 5618 tn 0 sn 62)wd1: status 51<rdy,seekdone,err> error
> >4<abort>
> >write error:5309072
> >wtfs: Input/Output error
> 
> 
> >So, my question is: is this a hardware problem? The disk is WD Caviar
> >(IDE) 4.3G 8912 cyl  15 heads. Could it be anything else except that the
> >disk is defective (I would like to make absolute sure before I exchange
> >it)
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Roman
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