From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 19 08:56:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA19501 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 08:56:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netcom.netcom.com (danj@netcom.netcom.com [192.100.81.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA19496 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 08:56:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from danj@localhost) by netcom.netcom.com (8.6.13/Netcom) id IAA20720; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 08:56:18 -0700 Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 08:56:18 -0700 From: danj@netcom.com (Dan Janowski) Message-Id: <199610191556.IAA20720@netcom.netcom.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: IDE hard error Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a Seagate 1.2GB IDE (a Conner drive, a la acquisition), the kernel is generating the following message: wd0s1e: hard error reading fsbn 34192 of 34176-34303 (wd0s1 bn 611728; cn 606 tn 13 sn 61)wd0: status 59 error 40 This is a bad block, I assume. Are not IDE drives suppoed to handle badblocks internally? If so, is this driver bad? If not, what am I supposed to do to mark the badblock? BTW, This is a brand new drive, the first Conner/Seagate had a bad controller, yikes! All input is much appreciated. Dan