Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 20:56:33 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: mestery@winternet.com (Kyle Mestery) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is my drive bad? Message-ID: <199711200156.UAA08628@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971119182221.21471B-100000@tundra.winternet.com> from Kyle Mestery at "Nov 19, 97 06:24:47 pm"
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Kyle Mestery said: > > Tried this on hardware last week, thought I would see if anyone on this > list has some ideas. Any help appreciated! > > > wd2: 1040MB (2130912 sectors), 2114 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > > And, here is what happens when I try to mount the drive: > wd2c: reverting to PIO mode writing fsbn 0 of 0-15 (wd2 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn > 0)wd2 > : status 71<rdy,wrtflt,seekdone,err> error 4<abort> > wd2c: hard error writing fsbn 0 of 0-15 (wd2 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0)wd2: > status 71 > <rdy,wrtflt,seekdone,err> error 4<abort> > wd2c: reverting to non-multi sector mode writing fsbn 0 of 0-15 (wd2 bn 0; > cn 0 > tn 0 sn 0)wd2: status 71<rdy,wrtflt,seekdone,err> error 4<abort> > Those errors are not the typical ones that I see when a drive has gone bad. You might want to rebuild to kernel to run in non-multi-sector mode. I have never tried to run multi-sector mode on a drive that fails doing it. Are you using an old drive? -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com
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