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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:16:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Adding HD
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On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Roman Katsnelson wrote:

> I am _still_ struggling with this upgrade...
> 
> I went to http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ and neither of
> the /stand/sysinstall methods (dedicated and not) worked. Nor did I get
> any telling error messages, all it said was:
> 
> Can't mount /dev/wd1e on /usr1: Invalid argument

/dev/wd1e doesn't appear to have a filesystem on it.  What does 

fdisk wd1
disklabel wd1

report?

> Then I did it commandline, and during the newfs, it died with this:
> 
> wd1c: hard error writing fsbn 5309072 of 5309072-5309087 (wd1 bn
> 5309072; cn 5618 tn 0 sn 62)wd1: status 51<rdy,seekdone,err> error
> 4<abort>
> write error:5309072
> wtfs: Input/Output error
> 
> 
> So, my question is: is this a hardware problem? The disk is WD Caviar
> (IDE) 4.3G 8912 cyl  15 heads. Could it be anything else except that the
> disk is defective (I would like to make absolute sure before I exchange
> it)

You need to enable bad sector remapping.  Contact Western Digital for a
program to enable 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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