From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 5 19:40:43 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id TAA07815 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 19:40:43 -0800 Received: from ix3.ix.netcom.com (ix3.ix.netcom.com [199.182.120.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA07809 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 19:40:41 -0800 Received: from by ix3.ix.netcom.com (8.6.9/SMI-4.1/Netcom) id TAA01781; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 19:38:53 -0800 Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 19:38:53 -0800 Message-Id: <199502060338.TAA01781@ix3.ix.netcom.com> From: PVinci@ix.netcom.com (Paul Vinciguerra) Subject: trouble w/ bad144/badsect To: questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm having trougle with FreeBSD 2.0 on my 386 with a 1 gig ide drive. BSD keeps giving me the FSBN #'s and the BN#'s. I can't mark these sectors bad with either bad144 or badsect. The message I get is the following: wd0f: hard error reading fsbn 1580785 of 1580736 - 1580847 (wd0 bn 1978561; cn 1962 tn 13 sn 46)wd0: status 59 error 40 Which utility should I be using? I understand that bad144 is a "CLEANER" fix, but all I ever get is the USAGE: message. I type: bad144 -f wd0 1580785 1978561 I get Usage bad144 blahblahblah I type: bad144 -a -f -c wd0 1978561 I get Usage .... When I run bad144 wd0, I get: bad144: read bad sector file @ sn 2116738:invalid argument : : : {more of the sake w/ different. sn's} : What am I doing wrong? How do I rectify this problem? Thanks Paul Vinci