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Date:      Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:39:56 -0700
From:      Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net>
To:        Jerahmy Pocott <quakenet1@optusnet.com.au>, "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fsck says "UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY"
Message-ID:  <6.1.0.6.2.20050811163758.03586db0@cobalt.antimatter.net>
In-Reply-To: <F20FF321-B489-4E90-9B2C-7F45FF5BDCC7@optusnet.com.au>
References:  <79096981-E73E-4389-9F1C-38789E98AE94@optusnet.com.au> <B971A931-E074-41C5-A4DC-813979F9A41B@shire.net> <F20FF321-B489-4E90-9B2C-7F45FF5BDCC7@optusnet.com.au>

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At 03:49 PM 8/11/2005, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:


>>>THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 66322510,
>>>
>>
>>Sounds like a HW issue to me.
>
>
>Anyway to confirm this? It is not a very old drive and the filesystem
>is still readable,
>I suppose it could have developed some bad sectors..

If you have another machine you can boot from, or another disk, you can 
install the smartmontools port (/usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools) and use 
that to see what the status of the drive is.

-Glenn


>Is there a way to flag them as bad without formating the drive?
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