Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:17:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: hard reading error Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960409151600.24231o-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199604090948.LAA09308@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > 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? NDD actually repaired it... > 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.) It's a Conner... > 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. > > Of course, you could go SCSI :), where disk formatting is standardized. > Then you can use /sbin/scsiformat... Hmmm, I don't have a backup... Otherwise I would just copy the HD to another HD and just reinstall FreeBSD then copy the stuff from the backup drive... Richard
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