Subject: Re: Soft error on disk write corrupted drive
To: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/31/2007 21:34:52
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 01:42:47PM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
> 
>      The "id not found" is a dead giveaway.  The disk electronics are
> having trouble reading the disk.  The disk is toast.  Replace it.

Not always. It's also what is reported when trying to read past the end
of the disk. In this case I suspect it's just an LBA vs LBA48 issue

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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