* Bruce J.A. Nourish <bjan+netbsd-help@bjan.net> [0934 19:34]:
> "Houston, we have problem..."

> wd0a: error reading fsbn 969840 of 969840-969855 (wd0 bn 969903; cn 962 tn 3 sn 18), retrying
> wd0: (uncorrectable data error)
> wd0a: error reading fsbn 969847 of 969840-969855 (wd0 bn 969910; cn 962 tn 3 sn 25), retrying
> wd0: (uncorrectable data error)
> wd0a: error reading fsbn 969847 of 969840-969855 (wd0 bn 969910; cn 962 tn 3 sn 25)wd0: (uncorrectable data error)
 
> I interrupted pkg_chk, and no more message appeared. I put the system in
> single-user mode, and it seems to be stable. The complete dmesg is at
> http://bjan.net/nb/dmesg-2003-09-18.txt
 
> Should I be buying a new hard-drive now? This one is not very old (i.e.
> new enough to silently remap bad sectors) but it has had a hard life.

Yeah, I would. If you ignore this you'll aLmost definitely be kicking 
yourself in a week...
(I went through 3 in a fortnight last year, turned out it was the
IDE controller and I was basically feeding it drives to trash...)

-- 
The algorithm to do that is extremely nasty.  You might want to mug
someone with it.
		-- M. Devine, Computer Science 340
Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns