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From: smace@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Mace)
Subject: Re: Solved: major scsi problem.  sd0: medium error block ....
Message-ID: <1993Jun13.035923.18928@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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I got adventurous and tried to tackle this one without any help.  I dump
the usr filesystem to tape and then ran newfs.  restored all my files.
I only wound up losing a few X man pages.  

Now for the more ominous question:
what caused the filesystem to get this error.

In article <1993Jun12.074233.9676@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> smace@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Mace) writes:
>I booted up today and encountered this on my usr partition
>sd0: medium error block no. 336081 (decimal)
>
>how to I fix this.  fsck doesn't fix it.  I thought that scsi drives
>relocated bad blocks
>my drive is a Maxtor LXT-340s and an Adaptec 1542B.
>
>Scott Mace
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