Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 12:15:37 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: DH <dhutch9999@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message & marking of same Message-ID: <200408061215.38024.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040804181012.71953.qmail@web20423.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040804181012.71953.qmail@web20423.mail.yahoo.com>
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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 03:40, DH wrote: > I've begun rec'ing these error messages: > > ad0s1a: hard error reading fsbn 141935 of 70848 - 71103 (ad0s1 bn 141935; > cn 8 tn 212 sn 59 ) status=3D59 error=3D40 > > Got about 7 of these with varying values. > > I ran Seagate's diag utility and it reported only 1 bad sector (# 71099 )= =2E=20 > Unfortunately ad0s1a happens to my / dir so allowing the utility to write > zeros to that block hasn't sat well with me. > > Sooo - if some one could explain the exact meaning of my error message & > point me in the right direction to use these values to fix my disk problem > I'd greatly appreciate it (with many many many thanks in advance :) ) I'd let the tool write a zero to that block and then fsck the disk. You can't read it now anyway, so it wouldn't make it any worse to write to = it=20 (and make the drive remap it) bn =3D block number cn =3D cylinder number tn =3D track number sn =3D sector number =2D --=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBEvDS5ZPcIHs/zowRAsoaAKCRgWmwcrRQ113zdqPZdtOb48svmACeMAj6 7/UQE6Gc2z/PXDC8m45SyAM=3D =3DMFcL =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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