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Date:      Sun, 14 Jul 2002 09:45:00 -0600
From:      Samuel Chow <cyschow@shaw.ca>
To:        "Jethro Borsje" <jborsje@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installing BSD
Message-ID:  <20020714094500.23f37ff3.cyschow@shaw.ca>
In-Reply-To: <00f001c22b44$68fdcff0$0100a8c0@jethro>
References:  <00db01c22b3d$41545340$0100a8c0@jethro> <20020714140307.GA26599@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <00f001c22b44$68fdcff0$0100a8c0@jethro>

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On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 16:40:29 +0200
"Jethro Borsje" <jborsje@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> > If you hit Alt-F2 when you get the 'status 36' mesage, there should be
> > some more informative error messages visible.  That should tell us
> > exactly what's happening.
> >
> DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem
> DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions
> Warning: Block size restricts cylinders per group to 94.
> /dev/ad0s1a: 262144 sectors in 64 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors
>  128.0MB in 1 cyl groups (94 c/g, 188.00MB/g, 16256 i/g)
> super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
> ad0s1a: hard error writing fsbn 822 of 376-383 (ad0s1 bn 822; cn 0 tn 13
> sn 3) status=51 error=10
> write error: 128
> newfs: wtfs - writecombine: Input/output error

	The 'hard error' pretty much indicates a bad disk.
	Since the bad track (tn = 13) is at the beginning of 
	the disk, you might want to try to create a small FAT 
	slice to skip the bad track.

	If I were you, I would go buy and replace this dying 
	disk. 

---
Samuel Chow
cyschow@shaw.ca

Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
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