From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 2 08:08:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA06971 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 08:08:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (nrtc.northrop.com [128.99.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA06966 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 08:08:37 -0800 (PST) From: johnson@charming.nrtc.northrop.com Received: from charming.nrtc.northrop.com by nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com id aa11898; 2 Apr 97 7:49 PST Received: from charming.nrtc.northrop.com by charming.nrtc.northrop.com (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA15261; Wed, 2 Apr 97 08:08:27 PST Message-Id: <9704021608.AA15261@charming.nrtc.northrop.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: question on hard disk error Date: Wed, 02 Apr 97 08:08:26 PST Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I am getting the following error message from my hard disk: wd0s2f: hard error reading fsbn 208044 of 208016-208047 (wd0s2 bn 389484; cn 193 tn 6 sn 18)wd0: status 59 error 1 I have a Compaq Armada 1125 notebook computer. I am running FreeBSD 2.1.5. I get the above error message consistently when I try to read a certain file. Other than that one thing, the system appears to work fine. When I boot up single and do an fsck, fsck indicates no problems with the file systems. Should I try to use badsect or bad144 to tell the device driver to never use a part of the hard drive? Is this an unrecoverable error that means I should just go buy a replacement hard drive for my computer? Is there some table that defines what is being used or not used in the file store that I can manually tweak in order to convince the kernel that a part of the disk is in use? Perhaps create a large dummy file that is a superset of the bad part of the disk and then just never touch or move that file? Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks, Greg Johnson