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From: pgdga@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Dirk Gajewski)
Subject: Repost: Bad sectors, file corruption
Message-ID: <pgdga.10.0@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
Keywords: bad sectors, file corruption
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Sender: root@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Operator)
Organization: tu-clausthal.de         
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 09:10:02 GMT

This is a repost of a problem posted some time ago without
any response to it. It is not a unique problem, because
several mails reporting the same problem were mailed to me.

I have an hard drive with about 250 kb of bad sectors scattered
all over the disc. When I try to extract the bin01.* files it
always complains about corrupted files. I know that my bin01.* 
files are correct, because they extracted well on another machine
with the same hardware components but without bad sectors on the
hd. I should mention that there were NO messages like

"wd0: hard read error writing fsbn XXXXX (wd0 bn YYYYY; cn ZZZ, tn A, sn B)"

during installation.

Any help is appreciated!

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