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From: bhenry@biotrin.ie (Barney Henry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Hard Disk/Controller in BSD 2.0 machine ?
Date: 16 Oct 1996 19:53:53 GMT
Organization: Biotrin International
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We use a machine running FreeBsd 2.0 as our mail gateway.
It has recently started throwing up more and more error messages.
I don't know if it is a Hard Disk or Controller problem or if it is
at all fixable.

Here is a sample from the /var/log/messages file....

Sep 30 09:47:24 gate kernel: wd0: wdunwedge failed:
Sep 30 09:47:25 gate kernel: wd0: status 
7e<rdy,wrtflt,seekdone,drq,ecc_cor,index> error 
7f<uncorr,id_crc,no_id,abort,tr000,no_dam>
Sep 30 09:47:25 gate kernel: wd0e: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command 
writing fsbn 42416 of 42416-42417 (wd0 bn 173488; cn 285
 tn 5 sn 18)wd0: status 80<busy> error 
7f<uncorr,id_crc,no_id,abort,tr000,no_dam>
Sep 30 09:47:25 gate kernel: wd0: wdunwedge failed:
Sep 30 09:47:25 gate kernel: wd0: status 
7e<rdy,wrtflt,seekdone,drq,ecc_cor,index> error 
7f<uncorr,id_crc,no_id,abort,tr000,no_dam>
Sep 30 09:47:25 gate kernel: wd0e: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command 
writing fsbn 42416 of 42416-42417 (wd0 bn 173488; cn 285
 tn 5 sn 18)wd0: status 80<busy> error 
7f<uncorr,id_crc,no_id,abort,tr000,no_dam>

Can anybody help me out and tell me what all this means ?
Is there any tool I can download to fix the problem or has the hardware 
just seen it's last days ?

This would be really appreciated.


Many Thanks

Barney Henry