From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 8 21:54:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA08009 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:54:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA07752 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:53:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA25030; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:51:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:51:52 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Stephen A. Derdau" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: error 40 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Stephen A. Derdau wrote: > I was in Xwindows one day . Hit the lock option. > System froze on me. Hit cntrl c , the next thing > I know the system rebooted. Since then I get this > error message? > > wd0s2f: hard error reading fsbn 1180055 of 1180048-1180063 (wd0s2 bn > 1612183; cn > 399 tn 54 sn 13)wd0: status 59 error 40 > > Can't seem to fix this with fsck /usr fsck -p or anything. > I think I have a bad sector on my disk. > Can someone please verify this or tell me if I can fix this. If it keeps sticking up on this block then you do have a bad block. The disk is probably out of bad blocks (disks automatically map these away) so you should consider investing in a new disk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message