From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 26 18:31:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA08678 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 18:31:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall.scitec.com.au (firewall-user@fgate.scitec.com.au [203.17.180.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA08595 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 18:31:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john.saunders@scitec.com.au) Received: by firewall.scitec.com.au; id LAA24398; Wed, 27 May 1998 11:30:48 +1000 (EST) Received: from mailhub.scitec.com.au(203.17.180.131) by fgate.scitec.com.au via smap (3.2) id xma024380; Wed, 27 May 98 11:30:33 +1000 Received: from hydra.scitec.com.au (hydra.scitec.com.au [203.17.182.101]) by mailhub.scitec.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA09296; Wed, 27 May 1998 11:30:29 +1000 Received: from saruman (saruman.scitec.com.au) by hydra.scitec.com.au with SMTP (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA239962626; Wed, 27 May 1998 11:30:27 +1000 Message-Id: <06b301bd890f$084498f0$6cb611cb@saruman.scitec.com.au> From: "John Saunders" To: "Michael Robinson" Cc: Subject: Re: Bug in wd driver Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 11:30:26 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Given the state the disk is in I'd try 2 things (after backing up all data, or as much as possible). First would be to fdisk/format the disk under MSDOS and see how that handles things. If it works then re-install FreeBSD on it. More likely is that MSDOS will suffer a hang which it might or might not recover from. If it does recover you may get a sector not found error. If your not back in business then the next step would be a lowlevel format of the drive. There are 3 outcomes to this. The best is that the drive re-writes all the lowlevel sector information and it comes good. The second is that nothing happens as the drive ignores lowlevel formatting. The third is that the drive proceeds to destroy the servo information rendering the drive totally unusable (until it gets shipped back to the manufacturer who may or may not still have the equipment to fix it depending on drive age). :( Check up with the drive manufacturer (web site maybe) to see if lowlevel formatting is an allowable thing to do by the user. Cheers. -- . +-------------------------------------------------------+ ,--_|\ | John Saunders mailto:John.Saunders@scitec.com.au | / Oz \ | SCITEC LIMITED Phone +61294289563 Fax +61294289933 | \_,--\_/ | "By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends." | v +-------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message