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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!pipex!sunic!news.chalmers.se!cs.chalmers.se!mumrik!sparud From: sparud@cs.chalmers.se (Jan Sparud) Subject: Strange disk errors Message-ID: <SPARUD.93Aug16110243@fuzzy.cs.chalmers.se> Sender: news@cs.chalmers.se (News administrator) Organization: Dept. of CS, Chalmers, Sweden Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 09:02:42 GMT Lines: 32 (486DX2/66, Symphony chipset, 386BSD+pk0.2.3) I am experiencing some strange problems with my second IDE disk. The first IDE disk is a Maxtor 7120 AT which I have no problems with. My second disk is a Conner CP3361 (340MB, 2794 cyls, 14 heads, 17 tracks). Disklabel and newfs run with no problems. It's when I do fsck the problems start. I get the error message BLK(S) MISSING IN BITMAPS in phase five *sometimes*. Other times it works OK. If I run fsck ten times, I get the error about five times. It doesn't seem to matter if I answer Y or N to the SALVAGE? prompt. When I try to use the disk, it works for a while. I have tried a couple of times to copy my usr directory (about 60M) from disk one. Sometimes it works and sometimes I get a panic message that disappears to fast for me to read. I should say that I have tested the disk with two different (DOS) disk test programs without problems. I also wrote a program that writes a certain pattern (using the raw device) all over the disk and then reads it back again. No problems. I would really appreciate any help or suggestions. It's frustrating to have 340 MB that I cannot use (but urgently need...)! --- Jan Sparud sparud@cs.chalmers.se Department of Computer Science +46 31 7721006 Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg, Sweden