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From: bmk@teleport.com (bmk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [Q] fsck and 'medium error' problems
Date: 20 Dec 1994 01:41:43 -0800
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
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Message-ID: <3d68sn$dhv@linda.teleport.com>
References: <YOCUM.94Dec19155436@sparticus.gateway.cybernet.com> <3d5jbv$cun@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: bmk@teleport.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: linda.teleport.com

In article <3d5jbv$cun@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>In article <YOCUM.94Dec19155436@sparticus.gateway.cybernet.com>,
>todd yocum <yocum@cybernet.com> wrote:
>>sd0(aha0:0:0): medium error, info = 848030 (decimal)
>>sd0(aha0:0:0): medium error, info = 848031 (decimal)
>
>1. Your controller is flakey.
>2. Your cabling is bad.
>3. Your disk is dying.
>

I'm getting something similar on one of my scsi disks.  I'd rather not
swap out the disk if I can fix it.   Is there any sort of utility to
mark defective blocks without reformatting the disk?






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