From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 19 17:56:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA24802 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:56:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA24797 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:56:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.7/8.8.8) id UAA08628; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 20:56:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199711200156.UAA08628@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Is my drive bad? In-Reply-To: from Kyle Mestery at "Nov 19, 97 06:24:47 pm" To: mestery@winternet.com (Kyle Mestery) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 20:56:33 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kyle Mestery said: > > Tried this on hardware last week, thought I would see if anyone on this > list has some ideas. Any help appreciated! > > > wd2: 1040MB (2130912 sectors), 2114 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > > And, here is what happens when I try to mount the drive: > wd2c: reverting to PIO mode writing fsbn 0 of 0-15 (wd2 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn > 0)wd2 > : status 71 error 4 > wd2c: hard error writing fsbn 0 of 0-15 (wd2 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0)wd2: > status 71 > error 4 > wd2c: reverting to non-multi sector mode writing fsbn 0 of 0-15 (wd2 bn 0; > cn 0 > tn 0 sn 0)wd2: status 71 error 4 > Those errors are not the typical ones that I see when a drive has gone bad. You might want to rebuild to kernel to run in non-multi-sector mode. I have never tried to run multi-sector mode on a drive that fails doing it. Are you using an old drive? -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com