From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 14 9:33:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 211B337B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 09:33:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9ADA43E4A for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 09:33:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jborsje@xs4all.nl) Received: from jethro (jborsje.xs4all.nl [213.84.166.214]) by smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with SMTP id g6EGXkmJ084795; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 18:33:46 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <012f01c22b54$399f8cc0$0100a8c0@jethro> From: "Jethro Borsje" To: "Samuel Chow" Cc: , References: <00db01c22b3d$41545340$0100a8c0@jethro><20020714140307.GA26599@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi><00f001c22b44$68fdcff0$0100a8c0@jethro> <20020714094500.23f37ff3.cyschow@shaw.ca> Subject: Re: installing BSD Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 18:33:42 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem >> DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions >> Warning: Block size restricts cylinders per group to 94. >> /dev/ad0s1a: 262144 sectors in 64 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors >> 128.0MB in 1 cyl groups (94 c/g, 188.00MB/g, 16256 i/g) >> super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at: >> ad0s1a: hard error writing fsbn 822 of 376-383 (ad0s1 bn 822; cn 0 >> tn 13 sn 3) status=51 error=10 >> write error: 128 >> newfs: wtfs - writecombine: Input/output error > > The 'hard error' pretty much indicates a bad disk. > Since the bad track (tn = 13) is at the beginning of > the disk, you might want to try to create a small FAT > slice to skip the bad track. > > If I were you, I would go buy and replace this dying > disk. > I fixed it, I had to fool around in my BIOS a little bit. Now I can't seem to get connected to the ftp site, but I think that's a problem which I can solve to. It's going trough Winroute on a Win2k machine. I'm trying it via the proxy now.... And I think it worked!! I'm downloading as we speak. Thank you very much for all your help. Greetings for the Netherlands, Jethro To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message