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Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 10:56:46 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Henryt3@aol.com
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: hard error
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On Sat, Sep 27, 1997 at 01:49:34PM -0400, Henryt3@aol.com wrote:
> After I moving my computer back and forth to berkeley from my apartment in
> Pleasant Hill, I got some weird message when I running BSD. It's like the
> following:
>
> Sep27 02:56:58 henryt /kernel : wd0s2e : hard error writing fsbn 2144 of
>  2144-2155 (        wd0s2 bn 67680; cn 16 tn 50 sn 18) wd0: status
> 51<rdy,seekdone,err>error4<abort>

Sounds like you weren't too gentle with the move.  That's disk
damage.  You may be able to salvage something with a low-level
format.  Make a backup first, since a low-level format destroys
all data on the disk.

Greg