From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 27 23:45:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA11817 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 23:45:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA11812 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 23:45:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id QAA09294; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 16:15:45 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970928161545.49690@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 16:15:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Kwoody Cc: Henryt3@aol.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hard error References: <19970928105646.07113@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Kwoody on Sat, Sep 27, 1997 at 10:51:35PM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Sep 27, 1997 at 10:51:35PM -0700, Kwoody wrote: > > > On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> >>> Sep27 02:56:58 henryt /kernel : wd0s2e : hard error writing fsbn 2144 of >>> 2144-2155 ( wd0s2 bn 67680; cn 16 tn 50 sn 18) wd0: status >>> 51error4 >> >> Sounds like you weren't too gentle with the move. That's disk >> damage. You may be able to salvage something with a low-level >> format. Make a backup first, since a low-level format destroys >> all data on the disk. >> > But can an IDE drive be low-leveled? I didnt think it could be done > unless you had the proper software to do so. Most BIOSes will do it for you. Greg