Subject: Re: How to fix a hard drive error
To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>
From: David Ferlier <david@netbsd-fr.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/30/2003 20:19:41
Hi,

Well, it's surely a bad sector (or multiple bad sectors).

See bad144(8) to see how to read/write the bad sectors list located on
the disk (it's a dec standard)

Good luck,

David

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:44:52AM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> I have a single IDE drive in a NetBSD 1.6 system. Starting recently, 
> the console tells me:
> 
> wd0e: error reading fsbn 16596096 of 16596096-16596111 (wd0 bn 
> 19775328; cn 19618 tn 6 sn 6), retrying
> wd0: (uncorrectable data error)
> 
> This repeats many times, always the exact same numbers.
> 
> How can I deal with this?
> 
> --Paul Hoffman
> 

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