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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!network.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!crash!warelock From: warelock@crash.cts.com (Tom Zacharoff) Subject: Re: hard error writing fsbn Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA Date: 30 Aug 93 12:44:09 PDT Message-ID: <1993Aug30.124409.23757@crash> References: <1993Aug25.202338.29686@crash> Lines: 22 Tom Zacharoff (warelock@crash.cts.com) wrote: : Andrew K. Heller (ao264@yfn.ysu.edu) wrote: : : : : first of all what is this automatic bad sector remapping question? : : I have a wd 1:1 mfm with floppy controller #wd1006v-sm2 : : : : i am running a st4096 by seagate..full height 80megger. : : rightr after the writing badd144 block message : : i get wd0a:hard error writing fsbn 5131 of 5128-5135 : : (wd0 bn 5131; cn33 tn 4 sn 14) : : : : I assume this is a harddisk sector error ...so whats going on? : : the program just hangs there with the message on the screen. : : I get the same thing. I have a 100 meg ide drive. I've installed netbsd 0.9 and this time I told it I have an st506 drive with no automatic bad sector forwarding. It works fine now. Every time I get an error like that I just reboot and go into single user mode and run bad144 to add the entry to the table. Then I reboot normally and voila! No more crashing error of hard error reading ... :-)