From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 20 05:18:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA28616 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 05:18:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA28595 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 05:18:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA63985; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 13:18:06 GMT Message-ID: <36A5D747.3BAD0C96@tdx.co.uk> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 13:16:55 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick Seal CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wdtimeout() status 58 (wdunwedge failed) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Patrick Seal wrote: > > Thanks, I'm cvsup'ing current right now, later today I'll grap stable and > see if the error occurs. Could reformating fix anything? > > thanks again, Don't think so, but it's worth a try... Modern IDE's do actually do block reallocation (to map failed blocks to spare areas on the disk), there a little 'behind the scenes' in how they do this though... Some of the manufacturers (western-digi springs to mind) have utils on their website which will tell you how many bad blocks etc. the drive has (but their very specific to the manufacturer) Try formatting - but if your going to continue using the drive, make sure your doing backups of any critical data... -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message