From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 28 7:53: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (ric-37.freedomnet.com [198.240.105.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AFD314BD5 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 07:53:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA57781; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:53:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <199912281553.KAA57781@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:53:10 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: keith@mail.telestream.com Subject: RE: bad blocks Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message