On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 16:40:29 +0200 "Jethro Borsje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you hit Alt-F2 when you get the 'status 36' mesage, there should be > > some more informative error messages visible. That should tell us > > exactly what's happening. > > > DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem > DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions > Warning: Block size restricts cylinders per group to 94. > /dev/ad0s1a: 262144 sectors in 64 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors > 128.0MB in 1 cyl groups (94 c/g, 188.00MB/g, 16256 i/g) > super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at: > ad0s1a: hard error writing fsbn 822 of 376-383 (ad0s1 bn 822; cn 0 tn 13 > sn 3) status=51 error=10 > write error: 128 > newfs: wtfs - writecombine: Input/output error The 'hard error' pretty much indicates a bad disk. Since the bad track (tn = 13) is at the beginning of the disk, you might want to try to create a small FAT slice to skip the bad track. If I were you, I would go buy and replace this dying disk. --- Samuel Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Segmentation Fault (core dumped) This message is displayed using recycled electrons. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message