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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Utility to check for bad sectors? Date: 21 May 1995 08:59:07 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3pmvcr$2m9@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3pm5q5$mct@noc.tor.hookup.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3pm5q5$mct@noc.tor.hookup.net>, Greg Schmidt <gschmidt@noc.tor.hookup.net> wrote: >Oh, here's a couple of lines from the messages log which may be useful: > kernel: fd0: Seek to cyl 0, but not really there (ST3 = 20<drdy>) > kernel: fd0: recal failed ST0 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,equ_chck> cyl 0 That's your floppy drive. There's nothing wrong with your hard disk.. :-) Or to be more accurate, these messages do not point to such a problem. Perhaps other symptoms, which you don't note here, do? Jordan