Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 12:20:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: Mark Hannon <mark@seeware.dialix.oz.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hard reading error Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960411122011.24231o-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Dpoyr4.D3D@seeware.DIALix.oz.au>
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On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, Mark Hannon wrote: > In article <199604090948.LAA09308@uriah.heep.sax.de>, > j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > >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? > > > >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.) > > > >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. > > > > If possibile I would return the disk & start again. I had some problems > with hard errors like this and I could never get bad144 to work. Since > exchanging my HD things have been working a treat. The problem with this is the drive needs to be sent back to the manufacturer and it takes awhile before you get the replacement. Richard
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