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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:21:58 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jean-Francois Routhier <jfrouthi@miranda.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Trouble with FreeBSD 2.2 (Hard disk or controller)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971120112053.4893E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19971119185212.0069fa08@mail>

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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Jean-Francois Routhier wrote:

> >> Is there a way for me to check if my hard disk is the problem or my
> >> controller or maybe FreeBSD itself.

> Thanks for answering Doug,
> My controller is on my motherboard.
> Brand of the Motherboard: PENTIUM GA-586ATV PCI-ISABUS
> Chips used to control IDE: SB82371SB or SB82437VX (Intel) (I'm not sure which)

OK, that's a Gigabyte motherboard with standard Intel IDE controllers.
That should be OK.  I was looking if you had a CMD chip.

> Also, I'v actually had the chance to run bad144 and here is the kind of
> error it gave me:
> bad144: cyl/trk/sect out of range in existing entry: sn=28766658 cn=28531,
> tn=116, sn=102
> 
> So what do you think that means ? Is my server writing data outside its
> partitions ?

If you have something on there that could be construed as a bad-sector
table, it may be using that.  If you ran bad144 it should clean it up.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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