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Date:      Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:17:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: hard reading error
Message-ID:  <Pine.PTX.3.91.960409151600.24231o-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199604090948.LAA09308@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, J Wunsch wrote:

> 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<seekdone,drq,err> error 40<uncorr>
> 
> ...
> 
> 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?

	NDD actually repaired it...

> 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.)

	It's a Conner...

> 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...

	Hmmm, I don't have a backup... Otherwise I would just copy the HD 
to another HD and just reinstall FreeBSD then copy the stuff from the 
backup drive...

Richard



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