Re: devastating 5.0R crash

[Paul A. Mayer]

There were some ATA complaints, (don't recall exactly what though it was clear that there were read errors), when attempting to boot the system off the HD. I don't recall "medium error" there, and have not seen it in fsck_ffs booted from the live cd. The sector numbers I'm seeing seem to be in short sequences or in proximity, but spread in various groups with in the partitions. The /var fsck has resulted in clearing to the last phase pass, where it repeatedly asks for fsck to be rerun. I'm on /usr now.

/Paul

David Schultz wrote:

Thus spake Paul A. Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

I'm presently running fsck_ffs from a live cd. It fsck'ed / with some complaints about an unreadable sector. It's now on /var and reporting vast, vast numbers of sectors as unreadable, with "UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY". I've not visited /usr yet. I hope my disk (with less than 800 hours of service) hasn't been somehow physically borked. (The windows partition boots and runs seemingly fine.)

If many (say, more than a track's worth) of sectors are unreadable
(e.g. you get a ``medium error''), your hard disk is probably
failing.

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