-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 03:40, DH wrote: > I've begun rec'ing these error messages: > > ad0s1a: hard error reading fsbn 141935 of 70848 - 71103 (ad0s1 bn 141935; > cn 8 tn 212 sn 59 ) status=59 error=40 > > Got about 7 of these with varying values. > > I ran Seagate's diag utility and it reported only 1 bad sector (# 71099 ). > Unfortunately ad0s1a happens to my / dir so allowing the utility to write > zeros to that block hasn't sat well with me. > > Sooo - if some one could explain the exact meaning of my error message & > point me in the right direction to use these values to fix my disk problem > I'd greatly appreciate it (with many many many thanks in advance :) )
I'd let the tool write a zero to that block and then fsck the disk. You can't read it now anyway, so it wouldn't make it any worse to write to it (and make the drive remap it) bn = block number cn = cylinder number tn = track number sn = sector number - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBEvDS5ZPcIHs/zowRAsoaAKCRgWmwcrRQ113zdqPZdtOb48svmACeMAj6 7/UQE6Gc2z/PXDC8m45SyAM= =MFcL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
