Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 09:37:51 GMT From: mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hard reading error Message-ID: <Dpoyr4.D3D@seeware.DIALix.oz.au> References: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960408123107.24231U-100000@soda.csua.berkeley.edu>
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In article <199604090948.LAA09308@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >As Richard Chang wrote: > >> > Error messages? >> >> Here they are: >> >> 1006499 of 1006496-1006511 (wd0s2 bn 1112995; cn 1104 tn 2 sn 37)wd0: status 59<seekdone,drq,err> error 40<uncorr> > >.... > >Huh, they are rather low-level. I wonder how you managed to ``correct'' >them with NDD. Probably NDD did only include them into the DOS bad >sector list? > >You could also use the ``bad144'' bad sector replacement on BSD, but >if i were you, i would backup the entire disk, and see to hardware- >reformat it. (I hope it's not a Quantum, they cannot be formatted at >all.) > >Note that ``hardware-reformat'' is quite different from what DOS' format >program does; it requires a special utility that is usually available >from several disk manufacturers. > If possibile I would return the disk & start again. I had some problems with hard errors like this and I could never get bad144 to work. Since exchanging my HD things have been working a treat. /mark -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD - Free Unix for your PC| mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+
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