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Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 18:34:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Jonathan Fosburgh <jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Disk error messages
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On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote:

> Everyonce in awhile I will receive log messages that look like
> 
> wd0: status 58<rdy,seekdone,drq> error 4<abort>
> 
> wd0c: hard error reading fsbn 240040 (wd0 bn 240040; cn 238 tn 2 sn10)wd0: status 59<rdy,seekdone,drq,err> error 40<uncorr>
> 
> Is there something that I can look up to explain what these mean? 

Your disk has bad sectors.  Use badsect/bad144 or buy a new disk.

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