Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:14:16 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>, "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: REPOST: Adding HD Message-ID: <19980812091416.I22754@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <35D04147.991094AE@graphnet.com>; from Roman Katsnelson on Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 09:04:07AM -0400 References: <35D04147.991094AE@graphnet.com>
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On Tuesday, 11 August 1998 at 9:04:07 -0400, Roman Katsnelson wrote: > Hello, > > I am not sure if this message got through the first time... If it did, > then I'm sorry for the repost... : >> I am _still_ struggling with this upgrade... > >> I went to http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ and neither of >> the /stand/sysinstall methods (dedicated and not) worked. Nor did I get >> any telling error messages, all it said was: > >> Can't mount /dev/wd1e on /usr1: Invalid argument > >> Then I did it commandline, and during the newfs, it died with this: > >> wd1c: hard error writing fsbn 5309072 of 5309072-5309087 (wd1 bn >> 5309072; cn 5618 tn 0 sn 62)wd1: status 51<rdy,seekdone,err> error >> 4<abort> >> write error:5309072 >> wtfs: Input/Output error > >> So, my question is: is this a hardware problem? Yes. >> The disk is WD Caviar (IDE) 4.3G 8912 cyl 15 heads. Could it be >> anything else except that the disk is defective (I would like to >> make absolute sure before I exchange it) Well, you could try reformatting it. Most disks have a few flaky spots. Maybe this is localised. Of course, if it's brand new and it's easy to exchange, go for it. > ... > ////// ==================================== \\\\\\ Do you really need a 14-line .sig? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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