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From: altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alex Tang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Hard Disk Errors
Date: 2 Aug 1993 00:47:04 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan - ITD Consulting and Support
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Hi. I've got NetBSD with one IDE drive and one SCSI drive. Currently, I have
a swap partition on both. My problem is that i keep getting both soft and
hard errors on my ide drive (both in the filesystem and in the swap.). I'll
get a message that says something like
hard error writing wd0e
fsbn 2352 of 2352-2359 (bn 39343 cn 154 bn 4 sn 5)
or something close to that. I've heard that both IDE and SCSI disks should do
their sector forwarding automatically. I've gotten many of these errors,
especially in wd0b, my swap partition. Can I do something about this? Should
I turn on sector forwarding via bad144? Does the kernel treat swap
differently?
Thanx...alex...
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Alex Tang -- ALTITUDE@UMICH.EDU...USERW00Y@UMICHUM.BITNET
U of M, SNRE: Student and Computer Consultant II
ITD/CSS Consultant and...General Fun Loving Guy :)