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From: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com>
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Subject: Re: Dump "short read error" on a Micropolis disk
In-Reply-To: <199612102341.AAA01785@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Dec 11, 96 00:41:21 am"
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 18:55:47 -0600 (CST)
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J Wunsch wrote:
> As Bob Willcox wrote:
> 
> >   DUMP: short read error from /dev/rsd6a: [block -670977536]: count=3072, got=0
> >   DUMP: short read error from /dev/rsd6a: [sector -670977536]: count=512, got=0
> >   DUMP: short read error from /dev/rsd6a: [sector -670977535]: count=512, got=0
> 
> >     ahc2: target 0 Tagged Queuing Device
> >     (ahc2:0:0): "MICROP 2217-15MZ1001901 HZ30" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
> >     sd6(ahc2:0:0): Direct-Access 1685MB (3450902 512 byte sectors)
> 
> Are you sure the filesystem is okay?  The block numbers are way out of
> range, which should normally only happen if the filesystem is
> clobbered.

Well, it fsck's just fine.  It was newly newfs'd and loaded with
data and I see no other errors.  It just seems that dump does not
like any filesystem that I try to build on that disk.  (I've had
a couple of others in a previous layout before I fdisk'd and
relabeled it today...I was hoping that that would fix it :-()

Thanks,
-- 
Bob Willcox	       politics, n:
bob@luke.pmr.com         A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of
Austin, TX               principles.  The conduct of public affairs for private
                         advantage.       -- Ambrose Bierce