From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 13 08:36:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA15780 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 08:36:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vanessa.eliuk.org (pme114.sunshine.net [209.17.178.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA15739 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 08:36:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by vanessa.eliuk.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA00828; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 08:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cagey@vanessa.eliuk.org) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 08:35:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" Reply-To: "Kevin G. Eliuk" To: Palle Girgensohn cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fsck: disk sectors could not be read In-Reply-To: <35A9D731.5E943C2F@partitur.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Palle Girgensohn wrote: => The dmesg message shows a bunch of rows like this one: => => > error 40 => > wd0s2f: hard error reading fsbn 721259 of 721248-721263 (wd0s2 bn 1212779; cn 150 tn 50 sn 29)wd0: status 59 error 40 => => => > fsck /usr gives this: => ... => CANNOT READ: BLK 721184 => ... => THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 721259, 721260, => NAME=/home/jens/blablabla => => REMOVE? [yn] y => => ... => => FREE BLK COUNT(S) WRONG IN SUPERBLK => SALVAGE? [yn] y => => BLK(S) MISSING IN BIT MAPS => SALVAGE? [yn] y => => SUMMARY INFORMATION BAD => SALVAGE? [yn] y => => ... => => A few files had to removed like this, but they're all on tape, so that's => OK. My problem is that I want to map out theese blocks. How is this => done? See bad144(8) & badsect(8). These may help you, but as well I have seen suggestions on the list about software available from HD manufacturers that have software downloads that allow you to fix drive that start misbehav'n like this. Try searching the -questions archive. My Maxtor drive has performed well since I used a low level format software that they provide for their drives. => Also, is the disk about to crash? From experience it does not get better :( => Shall I be concerned and rush to get a new one, or can I sleep o' => night? ;-) That's always an option, and if your like most you have your eye on one already ;-) => TIA => => Palle Regards, Discover Rock Solid Kevin G. Eliuk Discover FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSD.Org --==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==----==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message