From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 9 03:23:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA00879 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 03:23:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA00870 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 03:23:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA20074; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 12:22:26 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA04604; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 12:22:26 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id LAA09308; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:48:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604090948.LAA09308@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: hard reading error To: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Chang) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:48:14 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Richard Chang" at Apr 9, 96 01:47:14 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] 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 As Richard Chang wrote: > > Error messages? > > Here they are: > > 1006499 of 1006496-1006511 (wd0s2 bn 1112995; cn 1104 tn 2 sn 37)wd0: status 59 error 40 ... Huh, they are rather low-level. I wonder how you managed to ``correct'' them with NDD. Probably NDD did only include them into the DOS bad sector list? You could also use the ``bad144'' bad sector replacement on BSD, but if i were you, i would backup the entire disk, and see to hardware- reformat it. (I hope it's not a Quantum, they cannot be formatted at all.) Note that ``hardware-reformat'' is quite different from what DOS' format program does; it requires a special utility that is usually available from several disk manufacturers. Of course, you could go SCSI :), where disk formatting is standardized. Then you can use /sbin/scsiformat... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)