Subject: Re: Disk Problems
To: Josh Hope <otaku@unixgeek.ml.org>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/02/1998 21:16:06
Josh Hope wrote:
> sd1(sbc0:1:0): medium error, info = 154247 (decimal), data = 00 00 00 00
> 11 00 00 00 00 00 0a fd 00 07
> sd1(sbc0:1:0): medium error, info = 154300 (decimal), data = 00 00 00 00
> 11 00 00 00 00 00 0a fe 00 00
> 
> I don't know what's causing that. It just happened spontaneously as pine
> tried to write to my mailbox. It can't access the mailbox at all. It's
> acting really weird, and I'm going to restart and run fsck to try and fix
> this.
> 
> Anyone know what could cause this, and is there a way to salvage my
> mailbox? (there was some important stuff in it)

Well, although it's hard to say with the sometimes flaky ncr drivers, the
above error pretty much indicates an actual physical defect in the
disk....


Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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