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From: warelock@crash.cts.com (Tom Zacharoff)
Subject: Re: hard error writing fsbn
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 30 Aug 93 12:44:09 PDT
Message-ID: <1993Aug30.124409.23757@crash>
References: <1993Aug25.202338.29686@crash>
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Tom Zacharoff (warelock@crash.cts.com) wrote:
: Andrew K. Heller (ao264@yfn.ysu.edu) wrote:
: : 
: :   first of all what is this automatic bad sector remapping question?
: : I have a wd 1:1 mfm with floppy controller #wd1006v-sm2
: : 
: : i am running a st4096 by seagate..full height 80megger.
: : rightr after the writing badd144 block message
: : i get wd0a:hard error writing fsbn 5131 of 5128-5135
: : (wd0 bn 5131; cn33 tn 4 sn 14)
: : 
: : I assume this is a harddisk sector error ...so whats going on?
: : the program just hangs there with the message on the screen.
: 
: I get the same thing. I have a 100 meg ide drive.

I've installed netbsd 0.9 and this time I told it I have an st506 drive
with no automatic bad sector forwarding. It works fine now. Every time
I get an error like that I just reboot and go into single user mode and
run bad144 to add the entry to the table. Then I reboot normally and
voila! No more crashing error of hard error reading ... :-)