From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 10 07:07:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA02481 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 07:07:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA02474 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 07:07:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA80177; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 15:07:21 GMT Message-ID: <366FE3A8.C1613D3C@tdx.co.uk> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 15:07:20 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Quintin Oliver CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: eh? harddisk? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quintin Oliver wrote: > > Hi, I've just installed a new system on FreeBSD 2.2.8, when I attemp to > view some `man' pages I get this: > > Dec 10 15:51:11 elite /kernel: wd0s1f: hard error reading fsbn 3539024 of 3539024-3539039 (wd0s1 bn 3882480; cn 3851 tn 10 sn 42)wd0: status 59 error 40 > Dec 10 15:51:22 elite /kernel: wd0s1f: hard error reading fsbn 3539024 of 3539024-3539039 (wd0s1 bn 3882480; cn 3851 tn 10 sn 42)wd0: status 59 error 40 > > Then it falls over?? > > Any ideas? Sounds like your drive is dying... I'd guess the "" probably refers to the fact it's onboard error-correction couldn't correct the errors it got when reading the data... You might want to back it up - rapidly... -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message