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Date:      Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:53:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        keith@mail.telestream.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: bad blocks
Message-ID:  <199912281553.KAA57781@server.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912272254430.11982-100000@mail.telestream.com>

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On 28-Dec-99 keith@mail.telestream.com wrote:
> Well after reading through the mail archives I get the impression that if
> you have and error from fsck like this
> 
> "BAD SUPER BLOCK. VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH THOSE IN FIRST
> ALTERNATE."
> 
> That the disk is swish cheeze.. I can't believe that since these are new
> drives as of two months ago. I run fsck and it's marked clean and I can
> mount it. Then on reboot I have to run fsck again to be able to mount it. 
> It's on a RAID-5 array that up to now was working fine. A power failure
> forced the reboot and from then on fsck dies on boot forcing a manual
> fsck.
> 
> Any idea?

You might have a bad sector in the superblock.  I had a disk that only had 1
bad sector, but it was in the superblock.  It gave an error like this until I
finally repartitioned and newfs'd the drive.

> Keith

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