From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 20 09:39:48 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id JAA28824 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 09:39:48 -0800 Received: from ix2.ix.netcom.com (ix2.ix.netcom.com [199.182.120.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA28815 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 09:39:46 -0800 Received: from by ix2.ix.netcom.com (8.6.9/SMI-4.1/Netcom) id JAA24364; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 09:38:49 -0800 Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 09:38:49 -0800 Message-Id: <199502201738.JAA24364@ix2.ix.netcom.com> From: PVinci@ix.netcom.com (Paul Vinciguerra) Subject: re: trouble w/ wd caviar drive To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk You wrote: > >> I'm having trouble with my new wd Caviar 31000 drive under 2.0R. BSD >> keeps telling me about bad sectors, which WD's ATA/IDE tools can't find. >Can you send us the exact messages you see ? wd0f: Hard error reading fsbn 1508644 of 1508624-1508735 (wd0 bn 1906420; cn 1891 tn 1 sn 40) wd0: status 59error 40 Sometimes there are also soft ecc errors of the same format... >Also, describe in detail the FDISK layout and the disklabel. > ******* Working on device /dev/rwd0d ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=2100 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=2100 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 0 is: sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) start 63, size 164241 (80 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 162/ sector 63/ head 15 The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 164304, size 1952496 (953 Meg), flag 80 beg: cyl 163/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 15 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: # /dev/rwd0c: type: ST506 disk: ESDI/IDE label: MBR based label flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 16 sectors/cylinder: 1008 cylinders: 2100 rpm: 0 interleave: 0 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions:# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 102400 164304 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 163 - 264*) b: 131072 266704 swap # (Cyl. 264*- 394*) c: 1952496 164304 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 163 - 2099) d: 2116800 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 2099) e: 164241 63 MSDOS # (Cyl. 0*- 162*) f: 1719024 397776 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 394*- 2099*)