On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:40:10PM -0700, Roy Bixler wrote:
>
>I figured there must be some pretty extensive corruption on the
>filesystem, so I backed up the other directories there and then did a
>"newfs" command on it.  That also failed.  It would get to a certain
>point and then give a message like
>
>wtfs: write error: Undefined error: 0
>
>I didn't write down the exact message, but I tried repeatedly and it
>always died at the same number when writing superblock backups.
>
>Right now, I am running the system under Debian sarge.  I recreated
>the partitions under Linux and was able to create a couple of ext2
>filesystems without any trouble.  So that would seem to rule out
>hardware trouble.

Only if they tried to write the same bad blocks. If that partition
is already mounted, dd if=/dev/zero >/mnt/partition/zero or if
there is no need to keep the fs you could of=/dev/partition then
dd to md5. You want to write and read every block...  If there
are no errors, try again to assure the disk is up to full temp.
Sorry, it sounds *very* much like hw failure, nothing new, just be
sure, before rma time.  (Also see the linux badblocks program.)

// George

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