From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 20 13:59:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web106.yahoomail.com (web106.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A63514C4B for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 13:59:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from osiris2002@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19991020210245.8619.rocketmail@web106.yahoomail.com> Received: from [168.187.17.11] by web106.yahoomail.com; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:02:45 PDT Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:02:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Joss Roots Subject: Re: Hard Disk Error on FreeBSD-3.3 PLEASE HELP To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank you very much for help, that's the kind of answer I was looking for. --- Lowell Gilbert wrote: > The bad news is, this almost always means the > disk is about to die on > you completely. Actually I am suspecting the (extra) long and partially broken cable rather than the HD, but I am going to try use these commands though. >The good news is, bad144(8) > can usually help with > this. badsect(8) might even work, although I'd > be suspicious on an > IDE disk. I am not sure what you mean for the moment, have not read the man pages yet, but may be you mean badsect is for scsi disks ?? > Remember to use them only on > quiescent disks (e.g., > dismount the filesystem). SURE, thanks for the tip any way, I am going to shut down the system and reboot into single user mode. > > But if I were you, I'd put most of my effort > into backing up the data > on the disk so you can copy it to a new one: > I'll bet more blocks > start going bad very soon. Actually the HD is still empty, have been cautious not to put anything on it, but I am tryinmg to build a RELEASE on it so that's when I started getting the errors, no data lost, at least for now. Anyways thank you very much. Anymore feedbacks are most welcome. ===== MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message