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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 2nd drive file system destroyed on re-boot Date: 10 Aug 1992 10:06:22 GMT Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <165f2uINN6an@disaster.Germany.EU.net> References: <Bsp5D6.B9p@obiwan.uucp> NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net In article <Bsp5D6.B9p@obiwan.uucp>, bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox) writes: > I have discovered that specification of the sf key (bad sector forwarding) > in the disktab entry for my second disk results in distruction of the file > system on that disk. > ... > fsck reports errors in sectors on the last track of > the last cylinder of the disk. Are you quite sure you gave disklabel the correct number of cylinders and left five cylinders for bad144 ? If all's well, "bad144 wd1" should report something sensible. I noticed that with my ESDI drives I had to give disklabel one cylinder less than what the physical drive parameters are... -Bernard -- Bernard Steiner, FB Informatik/IRB, Uni Dortmund, vox +49 231 755 2444 Postfach 500500, D-W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany fax +49 231 755 2386 bs@Germany.EU.net ...!uunet!unido!bs *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome, *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV