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Date:      Mon, 03 Aug 1998 11:35:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jonathan Hanna <pangolin@rogers.wave.ca>
To:        Chris <chrisj@outcast.media-net.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Subject:   Re: WD errors
Message-ID:  <199808031835.LAA01901@pc-21490.bc.rogers.wave.ca>
In-Reply-To: <199808031612.JAA14148@antipodes.cdrom.com>

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On 03-Aug-98 Mike Smith wrote:
>> ...
>> follows. wd0s1f: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command reading fsbn
>> 3148892 of 3148892-3148893 (wd0s1 bn 3689468; cn 229 tn 167 sn 62)wd0:
>> status 80<busy> error 80<badblk>. after afew screens of that the message
>> will turn to  wd0: wdunwedge failed:
>> > wd0: status 80<busy> error 80<badblk>
>> > wd0s1f: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command reading fsbn 3148892 of
>> 3148892-3148893 (wd0s1 bn 3689468; cn 229 tn 167 sn 62)wd0: status
>> 80<busy> error 80<badblk>. the system will remain on-line (ie pingable)
>> ...
> 
> Your disk seems to be struggling with a bad block.  The best thing to do
> at this point is throw the disk out and get a new one, as with any
> modern IDE disk you will only get to this point once all of the
> available spare sectors have been used up.

When you give up on reading the block, you might try writing it and
then rereading. It may have been a bad write as opposed to a bad block.
I think I have caused this type of error with bad power connections but am 
not really sure.

Jonathan Hanna <pangolin@rogers.wave.ca>


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