Your best option would be to back the machine up, reformat the
	disk (under SunOS is you have it would be easiest), then copy
	the OS back onto it.

	Regarding badsect - have you tried running in single user mode &
	using the raw device? (/dev/rsd0g)

		David/abs	david@{mono.org,southern.com,mhm-internet.com}

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On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Alan Montezano da Silva wrote:

> 
> 
> 	Hi there,
> 
>   I have a sparc classic machine running NetBSD1.2 and I have some disk problems
>  ocurring when I try to compile something.I've tried to use the badsect command
> but it was said that the device /dev/sd0g was busy and I was unable to fix the
>  problem.Any suggestions or procedures to fix it?
> 
> 
> 		Thanks,
> 		   Alan
> 
> 
>