From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 06:25:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA11692 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 06:25:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA11685 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 06:25:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA20259 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 21:24:33 +0800 (WST) X-Authentication-Warning: haywire.DIALix.COM: news set sender to usenet-request@haywire.dialix.com using -f Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 09:37:51 GMT From: mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) Message-ID: Organization: Private FreeBSD site References: Subject: Re: hard reading error Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199604090948.LAA09308@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >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 error 40 > >.... > >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? > >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.) > >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. > If possibile I would return the disk & start again. I had some problems with hard errors like this and I could never get bad144 to work. Since exchanging my HD things have been working a treat. /mark -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD - Free Unix for your PC| mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+