At 10:44 AM -0800 1/30/03, 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?

Thanks for all the help so far. It is indeed that the bad-sector file 
is already full, and spilling over. So I have backed up the important 
parts of this drive, and have a new drive on order. The system is 
limping along in an interesting fashion. It works fine for about 48 
hours with no messages like the one above, then gets pretty damn 
stuck emitting messages like the one above. Sometimes I can do a 
clean reboot, sometimes I can't, and even 'fsck -y' in single-user 
mode gets a bit haired out.

So, my question is this: can I determine what files are associated 
with the error messages? If they are files that get accessed but I 
don't need them there, I might be able to move them away for now. The 
disk is less than half-full, so maybe I can forestall until the new 
drive has gotten here.