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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!redstone.interpath.net!ddsw1!news.structured.net!news.teleport.com!news.teleport.com!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 26 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? -- bmk@dtr.com | bmk@teleport.com | bmk@atlas.com | finger -l bmk@teleport.com for PGP public key. http://www.teleport.com/~bmk/ * http://www.teleport.com/~bmk/patriot.html