Subject: Re: more problems -current
To: None <tomthai@future.net>
From: Mike Long <mikel@shore.net>
List: current-users
Date: 06/17/1997 01:56:00
>Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:47:24 -0500 (CDT)
>From: "Tom T. Thai" <tomthai@future.net>
>
># fsck_ffs /var/spool/news
>** /dev/rccd0d (NO WRITE)
>
>CANNOT READ: BLK 16
>CONTINUE? [yn] y
>
>THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 
>23, 24, 25, 2
>6, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,
>Floating point exception - core dumped

I think I've seen this one before; it's probably a divide-by-zero
error.  I don't remember how I fixed it, sorry.

I would say that if that many sectors couldn't be read, then it's time
for newfs and possibly disk replacement.
-- 
Mike Long <mikel@shore.net>                http://www.shore.net/~mikel
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands,
hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -- H.L. Mencken