From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 17:14:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA12792 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 17:14:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA12784 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 17:14:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA06180; Thu, 23 May 1996 09:58:31 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605230028.JAA06180@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Does this mean what I think it does? To: kurto@tiny.mcs.usu.edu (Kurt Olsen) Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 09:58:30 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605221856.MAA06908@tiny.mcs.usu.edu> from "Kurt Olsen" at May 22, 96 12:56:36 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kurt Olsen stands accused of saying: > > > 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 Yes. All the errors you listed have the same block number as the culprit; I suspect that you'll either have to use 'badsect' to map it out or, as I would do, send the disk back. If you have 'quite a few' bad sectors, I'd be insisting on a new disk. > Kurt Olsen -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[