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Date:      Wed, 02 Apr 97 08:08:26 PST
From:      johnson@charming.nrtc.northrop.com
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   question on hard disk error
Message-ID:  <9704021608.AA15261@charming.nrtc.northrop.com>

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Hello,

I am getting the following error message from my hard disk:

wd0s2f: hard error reading fsbn 208044 of 208016-208047 (wd0s2 bn 389484; cn
193 tn 6 sn 18)wd0: status 59<seekdone,drq,err> error 1<no_dam>

I have a Compaq Armada 1125 notebook computer.

I am running FreeBSD 2.1.5.

I get the above error message consistently when I try to read a certain
file.  Other than that one thing, the system appears to work fine.

When I boot up single and do an fsck, fsck indicates no problems with
the file systems.

Should I try to use badsect or bad144 to tell the device driver to
never use a part of the hard drive?

Is this an unrecoverable error that means I should just go buy a
replacement hard drive for my computer?

Is there some table that defines what is being used or not used in
the file store that I can manually tweak in order to convince the
kernel that a part of the disk is in use?  Perhaps create a large
dummy file that is a superset of the bad part of the disk and then
just never touch or move that file?

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Greg Johnson



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