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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: PVinci@ix.netcom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject: re: trouble w/ wd caviar drive
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>>> I'm having trouble with my new wd Caviar 31000 drive under 2.0R.  BSD 
>>> keeps telling me about bad sectors, which WD's ATA/IDE tools can't 
>find.
>>Can you send us the exact messages you see ?

>wd0f: Hard error reading fsbn 1508644 of 1508624-1508735 (wd0 bn 
>1906420; cn 1891 tn 1 sn 40) wd0: status 59<seekdose,drq,err>error 
>40<uncorr>
>Sometimes there are also soft ecc errors of the same format...

It looks like a normal hardware error.

>>Also, describe in detail the FDISK layout and the disklabel.
>...
Everything seems OK here.

Bruce