From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 10 03:41:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA25476 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 03:41:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from junior.uwc.ac.za (pvh@junior.uwc.ac.za [196.21.46.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id DAA25441 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 03:41:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pvh@junior.uwc.ac.za) Received: from localhost by junior.uwc.ac.za (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA23376; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 13:37:12 +0200 Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 13:37:12 +0200 (USAST) From: Peter van Heusden To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Dealing with bad blocks on IDE disk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This morning my IDE hard disk started coming up with error messages as follows: hard error reading fsbn 1507720 of 1507712-1507727 (wd0s2 bn 172912; cn 427 tn 3 sn 59) wd0: status 59 error 40 which appears to mean that I have a bad block on my hard disk. How do I go about fixing this? I've tried using bad144 from a fixit floppy, but it dies, complaining about 'too many sectors' on my hard disk. Thanks for any info, Peter -- Peter van Heusden, UWC: Tel: 959 3466 Email: pvh@junior.uwc.ac.za