On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 03:14:07PM +0300, Antti Kantee wrote:
> Mar 28 13:43:30 babylon5 /netbsd: wd0e:  uncorrectable data error
> reading fsbn 6517424 of 6517424-6517439 (wd0 bn 7130288; cn 7073 tn 11
> sn 11), retrying

> Seems like I got an extra bad block somewhere in the bootblock. Does
> this matter? What am I doing wrong, if anything? Or is anything I'm doing
> here doing any good to solve the my problem described at beginning of
> the mail.

  From what I've been told, ``modern'' disks have enough built-in
smarts that once you start seeing bad blocks that get by all
their smarts, it means your disk probably has a very limited
lifetime left.  In November, we had a new (<1yr) IDE disk that
started giving us uncorrectable errors.  Within a week, it
couldn't read its MBR, much less anything else.  But it makes a
nice hurricane-weather paperweight!  :)

  Seriously, I would do a full backup of your disk before you
do ANYTHING else, and THEN go find your warranty for the disk. 
AFTER THAT, you can see if bad144 helps.  But I think it only
delays the inevitable.  :(  I lost stuff, because I didn't
bother backing up the disk before it was too late to read half
the sectors.  So learn from my experience -- back up NOW!

  I wish you luck.  Maybe you'll have more than I did!

  Brian