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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: [2.1.0] Disk errors
To: amir@neuron.net (Amir Y. Rosenblatt)
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 10:48:50 -0700 (MST)
Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, amir@neuron.net, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199608091434.KAA03751@prozac.neuron.net> from "Amir Y. Rosenblatt" at Aug 9, 96 10:34:08 am
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It seems that Amir Y. Rosenblatt said:
> 
> > > Aug  3 03:30:59 wax /kernel: wd1s1f: hard error reading fsbn 630755 of
> > > 630752-63
> > > 0767 (wd1s1 bn 835555; cn 828 tn 14 sn 49)wd1: status 59<seekdone,drq,err>
> > > error 40<uncorr>
> > > Aug  3 03:31:28 wax /kernel: wd1s1f: hard error reading fsbn 630755 of
> > > 630752-63
> > > 0767 (wd1s1 bn 835555; cn 828 tn 14 sn 49)wd1: status 59<seekdone,drq,err>
> > > error 40<uncorr>
> > 
> > I'd say that you've filled up your disk and you're running into the
> > translated media errors.  At this point, either you'll have to back off
> > your disk usage or buy a new, larger disk. 
> 
> Well, the 2 partitions on the disk hae 92 and 31 meg free respectively so
> I don;t think it's a question of disk space as such.

It's not a question of how much *space* is left but, rather, *where*
FBSD is trying to access the disk.

Have you verified that it's not a bad block (media defect)?
As I asked *earlier*, what's the disk geometry (as reported
by your BIOS -- *NOT* what FBSD tells you it is)?  Then, what
does FBSD tell you your geometry is...?

--don