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Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 22:15:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: dan <dan@joshua.sns.org>
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Subject: Re: Bad Blocks on IDE Drive
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On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, dan wrote:

> 
> Hello! I am continuing my battle to install -CURRENT on a 1.6Gb IDE
> Western Digital Drive. I have tried installing via FTP a number of times
> and ran into wd0: soft error and wd0: hard error's. The recommendations
> from my first post indicated that I had some bad blocks on the drive. I
> tried to do a bad block/low level format of the drive but my bios did not
> support this. I downloaded a util from WD to lowlevel the drive and gave
> it a shot. Again installation failed.
> 
> 	 I switched to a brand new, ultra modern motherboard and ran the
> bios lowlevel/bad block marking routine. Both the WD and BIOS utils find
> no bad blocks. Again installation fails. So I gave it one last shot and
> selected bad block scan from the FreeBSD FDISK screen. The scan found
> roughly 9 bad sectors and then started picking out bad blocks. This became
> rather tedious so I left the room and came back to find that bad144 had
> found too many bad blocks and was exiting.

Well, this probably means that your disk is bad or your controller isn't
FreeBSD-happy.

Try replacing your disk.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major