Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:16:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com> Cc: "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Adding HD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808120015320.28795-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35CF2F1F.1E29A372@graphnet.com>
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On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Roman Katsnelson wrote: > 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 /dev/wd1e doesn't appear to have a filesystem on it. What does fdisk wd1 disklabel wd1 report? > 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? 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) You need to enable bad sector remapping. Contact Western Digital for a program to enable it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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