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Date:      Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:20:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hard reading error
Message-ID:  <Pine.PTX.3.91.960409151919.24231q-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199604091403.XAA16140@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Michael Smith wrote:

> Richard Chang stands accused of saying:
> > 
> >>> 	I am experiencing a problem with my FreeBSD partition with a hard 
> >>> reading error on my hard drive since someone accidentally kicked the 
> >>> machine while it was running.  I had fixed the problem in DOS by 
> >>> repairing it with Norton Disk Doctor, is there a way to do it under FreeBSD?
> >> 
> >> 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>
> > wd0s2e: hard error reading fsbn 1006499 of 1006496-1006511 (wd0s2 bn 1112995; cn
> >  1104 tn 2 sn 37)wd0: status 59<seekdone,drq,err> error 40<uncorr>
> > wd0s2e: hard error reading fsbn 1006499 of 1006496-1006511 (wd0s2 bn 1112995; cn
> >  1104 tn 2 sn 37)wd0: status 59<seekdone,drq,err> error 40<uncorr>
> 
> The 'badsect' command is the easiset way of dealing with this.  Read
> the 'badsect' manpage for intimate details on the process.  The "bad
> sector number" you want is the 'fsbn' (filesystem block number) value,
> ie 1006499.
> 
> If we assume that /dev/wd0s2e is mounted as /foo, you would say :
> 
> # cd /foo
> # mkdir BAD
> # badsect BAD 1006499

	Tried this but it said cannot attach 1006499 so any ideas?

> # cd /
> # umount /foo
> # fsck /dev/rwd0s2e
> (respond as detailed in the badsect manpage)

Richard




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