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Message-ID: <330BA102.4CB5@pinehurst.net> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 19:55:30 -0500 From: Beth Morgan <beth@pinehurst.net> Reply-To: beth@pinehurst.net Organization: Internet of the Sandhills X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01C-SANDHILLS (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Format error in bad-sector file Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 19 NNTP-Posting-Host: persephone.pinehurst.net Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!ns.saard.net!spasun.tpa.com.au!duster.adelaide.on.net!news.ade.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!news.tacom.army.mil!news2.acs.oakland.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.be.com!news1.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!news.pinehurst.net!of1.pinehurst.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6056 Has anyone seen this error before? I just installed 2 new Maxtor 3.5 gb hard drives on my Cyrix 200+ machine running BSDI 2.1 (Internet Server). When I newfs'ed them, I received an error "format error in bad-sector file". The disks seem to be fine though. I'm testing them with a newsfeed for a few days, so I won't suffer any serious consequences if I really do have some errors. I did run diskdefect, which also had errors like: diskdefect bad-sector file 4 is jumbled diskdefect cannot locate valid bad block table diskdefect cannot find defect list This all leads me to believe that it's not the disks that have problems, it's the file that diskdefect was supposed to write to that has the problem. Has anyone had a similar experience? Thanks, Beth