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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Hard error writing to disk? Date: 23 Dec 1996 21:10:07 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <59msff$790@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <58qtvu$4ok$1@scramble.lm.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33045 Michael Holling <myke@lm.com> wrote: > wd2s2e: hard error writing fsbn xxx of yyy - zzz (wd2s2 bn xxx; cn 376 tn 47 > sn 31)wd2: status 61 <rdy,wrtflt,err> error 4<abort> > Any hardware gurus know offhand where the problem might lie? Dump your disk into the trashbin. It might still be good for a /dev/null, bot probably not for much more. :) Well, sometimes it happens that IDE disks have a particular idiosyncrasy with some IDE host adaptor, so maybe replacing that one might help you. If not, you can try to get the vendor for handing you out a formatting tool for the disk (the normal BIOS disk formatting utility is no good, it will only format ST-506 disks), but that's certainly the end then. I wouldn't trust such a disk. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)