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Date:      Mon, 10 Nov 1997 15:06:09 +0000
From:      Ruslan Shevchenko <Ruslan@Shevchenko.kiev.ua>
To:        Peter van Heusden <pvh@junior.uwc.ac.za>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dealing with bad blocks on IDE disk
Message-ID:  <346722E1.4AF0FC66@Shevchenko.kiev.ua>
References:  <Pine.A32.3.93.971110133646.15182A-100000@junior.uwc.ac.za>

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Peter van Heusden wrote:

> This morning my IDE hard disk started coming up with error messages as
> follows:
>
> hard error reading fsbn 1507720 of 1507712-1507727 (wd0s2 bn 172912; cn
> 427 tn 3 sn 59) wd0: status 59?rdy,seekdone,drq,err? error 40?uncorr?
>
> which appears to mean that I have a bad block on my hard disk. How do I go
> about fixing this? I've tried using bad144 from a fixit floppy, but it
> dies, complaining about 'too many sectors' on my hard disk.
>

  Exists mode in /stand/sysinstall, but now I can't remember  -- isit can be
used after disk formatting.

> Thanks for any info,
> Peter
> --
> Peter van Heusden, UWC: Tel: 959 3466   Email: pvh@junior.uwc.ac.za






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