From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 15 18:53:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA26639 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 18:53:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA26628 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 18:53:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA21087; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 11:54:06 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604160224.LAA21087@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: wd disk errors (resend) To: Mike.Jenkins@ncts.navy.mil (Mike Jenkins) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 11:54:05 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9604151957.AA00402@pegasus.ncts.navy.mil> from "Mike Jenkins" at Apr 15, 96 02:57:01 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mike Jenkins stands accused of saying: > I'm getting the enclosed disk errors on a partition of the wd0 disk. > Are there any utilities to correct it? Warranty return on the disk. It's not supposed to be defective 8) > There were no problems during installation. Does the installation > do a low level format? No. low-level formatting an IDE disk requires vendor-specific and highly proprietary software. > Apr 12 08:23:43 free /kernel: wd0s2f: soft error reading fsbn 868768 of 868752-868767 (wd0s2 bn 1327520; cn 658 tn 15 sn 47)wd0: status 58 error 40 > Apr 12 08:23:46 free /kernel: wd0s2f: soft ecc reading fsbn 827087 of 827072-827087 (wd0s2 bn 1285839; cn 637 tn 26 sn 9)wd0: status 5c error 40 > Apr 12 08:23:50 free /kernel: wd0s2f: soft ecc reading fsbn 805943 of 805888-805999 (wd0s2 bn 1264695; cn 627 tn 10 sn 33)wd0: status 5c error 40 > Apr 12 08:23:57 free /kernel: wd0s2f: hard error reading fsbn 806177 of 806112-806223 (wd0s2 bn 1264929; cn 627 tn 14 sn 15)wd0: status 59 error 40 > Apr 12 08:38:37 free /kernel: wd0s2f: hard error reading fsbn 805474 of 805440-805551 (wd0s2 bn 1264226; cn 627 tn 3 sn 5)wd0: status 59 error 40 > It looks like your disk is pretty ill. Look at the 'badsect' command for a possible means of avoiding the problem. For the purpose of the badsect command, the 'bad sector numbers' are the 'fsbn' numbers in the error messages above. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[