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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: [2.1.0] Disk errors
To: amir@neuron.net (Amir Y. Rosenblatt)
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 18:54:15 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199608082050.QAA26927@prozac.neuron.net> from "Amir Y. Rosenblatt" at Aug 8, 96 04:50:38 pm
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> My office machine, a 486/66, running 2.1.0-RELEASE has been having some
> weird disk problems and before I can get the folks here to reoplace the
> disk, I need to be able to tell them more clearly what sort of errors I'm
> getting.  The following is from /var/log/messages:
> 
> Aug  3 03:30:59 wax /kernel: wd1s1f: hard error reading fsbn 630755 of
> 630752-63
> 0767 (wd1s1 bn 835555; cn 828 tn 14 sn 49)wd1: status 59<seekdone,drq,err>
> error 40<uncorr>
> Aug  3 03:31:28 wax /kernel: wd1s1f: hard error reading fsbn 630755 of
> 630752-63
> 0767 (wd1s1 bn 835555; cn 828 tn 14 sn 49)wd1: status 59<seekdone,drq,err>
> error 40<uncorr>

Is it always the same fsbn?  (or a small group of them)?  Sounds like
a bad spot on the disk (fsck only checks the *structure* of the file
system -- it doesn't do a "media test"....

Also, how big (geometry) is the disk...

--don