From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 11:56:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA17746 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 11:56:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tiny.mcs.usu.edu (tiny.mcs.usu.edu [129.123.15.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA17731 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 11:56:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kurto@localhost) by tiny.mcs.usu.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA06908 for freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org; Wed, 22 May 1996 12:56:36 -0600 Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 12:56:36 -0600 From: Kurt Olsen Message-Id: <199605221856.MAA06908@tiny.mcs.usu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Does this mean what I think it does? Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I just recently picked up a pentium machine with a large EIDE drive in it. On my first install I got a bunch of these: May 22 06:50:19 myname /kernel: wd0s3f: hard error reading fsbn 1012831 of 1012830-1012831 (wd0s3 bn 1336415; cn 331 tn 28 sn 59)wd0: status 59 error 40 I reinstalled and used the bad144 option to have things checked out. It found quite a few bad sectors and sysinstall said that 'bad144 returned 1.' I assumed that since things continued on, that was normal? Perhaps that's not the case? Anyway the install went just handily after the scan and so I set out to rebuild my kernel and have now seen quite a few more. Here's a couple more examples: May 22 06:50:19 myname /kernel: wd0s3f: hard error reading fsbn 1012831 of 1012830-1012831 (wd0s3 bn 1336415; cn 331 tn 28 sn 59)wd0: status 59 error 40 May 22 06:50:31 myname /kernel: wd0s3f: hard error reading fsbn 1012831 of 1012830-1012831 (wd0s3 bn 1336415; cn 331 tn 28 sn 59)wd0: status 59 error 40 So does this mean there's something seriously wrong with my disk or am I some kind of idiot who is missing something obvious. Kurt Olsen