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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!europa.clark.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!easynet-uk!easynet-tele!easynet-uko!news.ukonline.co.uk!not-for-mail From: dan.h@ukonline.co.uk (Dan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: WD1 format error in bad-sector file Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 11:46:02 GMT Organization: [posted via] UK Online Ltd Lines: 30 Message-ID: <33a91858.8738817@bell.ukonline.co.uk> References: <01bc7b6a$d6586b80$32a19acf@hydrogen.netrti.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: bell.ukonline.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:7029 On 17 Jun 1997 22:10:44 GMT, "Jay Rothschild" <jay@netrti.net> wrote: >I have a customer whose BSDI 3.0 system gives this error on boot. >Everything seems to work fine. WD1 and a slice from WD0 are spliced >together. > >Does anyone know how to fix this besides reformatting? Is it something that >will turn into a bigger problem or can we limp along with this error until >a more appropriate time to reformat? > Try using /sbin/diskdefect. (or at least reading the man page) Used it to cure our 'wd0: error in bad sector file' - HOWEVER, our problem was due to installing onto a large EIDE drive and not scanning it at install time i.e. there was no bad sector file, so diskdefect was used to write a new one (although EIDE doesn't need a bad sector file anyway, so the operation was purely cosmetic) 'FORMAT error in bad sector file' could be a 'proper' problem. ________________________ Dan Hopkins Technical Support Systems Administration Team UKOnline Ltd. e-mail: dan@ukonline.co.uk