From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 10 04:12:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA27272 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 04:12:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from cam.grad.kiev.ua ([195.5.25.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA27264 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 04:12:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ruslan@Shevchenko.kiev.ua) Received: from Shevchenko.kiev.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cam.grad.kiev.ua (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA23920; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 15:06:09 GMT Message-ID: <346722E1.4AF0FC66@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 15:06:09 +0000 From: Ruslan Shevchenko X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03b8 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter van Heusden CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dealing with bad blocks on IDE disk References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Peter van Heusden wrote: > 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?rdy,seekdone,drq,err? error 40?uncorr? > > 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. > Exists mode in /stand/sysinstall, but now I can't remember -- isit can be used after disk formatting. > Thanks for any info, > Peter > -- > Peter van Heusden, UWC: Tel: 959 3466 Email: pvh@junior.uwc.ac.za