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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Hard Disk/Controller in BSD 2.0 machine ? Date: 20 Oct 1996 15:07:30 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 32 Message-ID: <54df7i$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <543egh$pi1@niamh.indigo.ie> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E bhenry@biotrin.ie (Barney Henry) wrote: > We use a machine running FreeBsd 2.0 as our mail gateway. FreeBSD 2.0 is really obsolete. > It has recently started throwing up more and more error messages. > I don't know if it is a Hard Disk or Controller problem or if it is > at all fixable. > > Here is a sample from the /var/log/messages file.... > > Sep 30 09:47:24 gate kernel: wd0: wdunwedge failed: > Sep 30 09:47:25 gate kernel: wd0: status > 7e<rdy,wrtflt,seekdone,drq,ecc_cor,index> error Since you tell that this started only recently, it's most likely indeed hardware. Btw., ``ecc_cor'' --> your drive tells you that it required ECC correction in order to recover your data. You should probably quickly look for a dump tape. ;) Maybe a real low-level format (with some utility from your hard disk vendor) might cause the drive to re-establish and extend its bad sector table, so you would see a clean drive again afterwards. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)