From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 24 16:35:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA20168 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 16:35:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from chumbly.math.missouri.edu (chumbly.math.missouri.edu [128.206.72.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA20157 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 16:35:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu) Received: (from rich@localhost) by chumbly.math.missouri.edu (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) id SAA03097 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 18:35:35 -0600 From: rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) Message-Id: <199711250035.SAA03097@chumbly.math.missouri.edu> Subject: Help with IDE unreadable sector error To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 18:35:35 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The error is happening on the / partition. How do I re-map the sector out of the way? I looked in the handbook and I'm hoping things have improved since it was written :-) /kernel: wd1a: hard error reading fsbn 65794 of 65792-65807 (wd1 bn 270594; cn 33 tn 71 sn 9) wd1: status 59 error 40 Thanks! Rich