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Date:      Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:51:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz>
Cc:        Josh <josh2@marvin.albury.net.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: AAARGH!  failure to boot.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980429135050.13203E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <v02120d03b165d81b45d5@[203.96.56.186]>

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On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Andrew McNaughton wrote:

> ---------------------------------------
> Fixit# fsck -n /mnt2/dev/wd0s3
> ** ?mnt2/dev/rwd0s3 (NO WRITE)
> 
> CANNOT READ: BLK 16
> CONTINUE? yes
> 
> THE  FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22,
> 23, 24
> , 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,

That is really suspicious.  I suspect something overwrote the front end of
your drive, or you have a big gouge in the disk surface :(

You might as well try -y, and run it several times.  If it's truly dead
then a reformat will prove it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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