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Date:      Tue, 12 Aug 1997 18:38:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Joachim Wunder <Joachim.Wunder@lrz.tu-muenchen.de>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bad block 808464440, ino 23166 (HELP!)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970812183706.252E-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <9708121826.AA12225@sun1.lrz-muenchen.de>

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On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Joachim Wunder wrote:

> I have an old WD AP4200 (200 MByte) IDE-drive for /usr/obj
> 
> After a tar to /usr/obj the dmesg output look like the following:
> 
> [...]
> pid 1442 (tar), uid 100 on /usr/obj: bad block
> bad block 808464432, ino 23166
> 
> Of course I already formatted /dev/wd2 new (where my /usr/obj lies).
> And I did a bad144 -s -v.
> 
> A bad144 /dev/wd2 shows:
> bad block information at sector 414505 in /dev/wd2:
> cartridge serial number: 10211994(10)
> 
> 
> 
> So do I really have a bad harddisk?!

Unfortunately the bad blocks are going to show, so you're over your
buffer.  bad144 will block them out, but more will probably pop up.  

A new disk is in order, although a few passes with bad144 will lock out
anything it finds.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
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