Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:27:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Disk timeouts only during install newfs? Message-ID: <199809231627.JAA03990@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Sep 1998 18:21:35 %2B0930." <19980923182135.Z12701@freebie.lemis.com>
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> I've just finished installing 2.2.6 on a not-completely-new Pentium > machine with IDE disks. During the initial newfs, it had numerous DRQ > timeouts on the drive (ready, seek_done) (no_dam). After fsck, the > install ran with no problem, and fsck showed no problems. The machine > appears to be OK. > > Has anybody seen this before? Any ideas? Sounds like the disk might have spent a lot of time forwarding bad sectors. I'd want to at least dd over the entire disk before trusting it for active use. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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