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From: Mike Pelletier <mikep@comshare.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: "error 40" disk errors, HELP!
Date: 15 Jul 1996 16:11:52 -0400
Organization: Comshare, Inc. - Ann Arbor, Michigan
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I'm getting the following errors periodically on the system console:

Jul 15 16:05:11 valhalla kernel: wd0h: soft ecc bn 1793228
Jul 15 16:06:02 valhalla kernel: wd0h: soft error reading fsbn 1517534 of
	1517534-1517535 (wd0 bn 1793726; cn 1779 tn 7 sn 53)
	status 59<rdy,seekdone,drq,err> error 40<uncorr> retries 1
Jul 15 16:06:05 valhalla kernel: wd0h: hard error reading fsbn 1517535 of
	1517534-1517535 (wd0 bn 1793727; cn 1779 tn 7 sn 54)
	status 59<rdy,seekdone,drq,err> error 40<uncorr>

I seem to have lost one minor directory to this problem so far...
Could someone tell me how to update the bad block list on this internal
EIDE drive?  The "diskdefect" command seems to only work with floppy disks
from what I can tell from the man page and it's behaviour when run against
wd0.

Or will I need to repartition the drive to leave out these two blocks
(1517534-1517535)?

Thanks for any suggestions you can offer!

	-Mike Pelletier.