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From: Michael White <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: bad144: bad sector file contains duplicates.
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 16:25:01 -0800
Organization: University of California, Davis
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NOTE: I thought I posted this on the 23 of December, but it never 
seemes to have appeared on my server (I have messages from Dec. 22,
both read and unread).


Well, I had my system all re-installed and thought everything was going
okay when it crashed and burned again. 

I had to run "fsck -b 32 ..." and got some interesting errors, like:
   Following disk sectors could not be read: -2, -1 
and then it eventually exits on signal 11 (runs out of memory).

I ran bad144 (and re-directed the output to a file) and got:

 bad block information at sector 2116674 in /dev/rwd1c
 cartridge serial number:0(10)
 bt_flag=0(16)?
 sn=0, cn=0, tn=0, sn=0
 sn=0, cn=0, tn=0, sn=0
 ..... (above line repeted 126 times)

followed by a bunch of copies of the message:

 bad144: bad sector file contains duplicates (sn0)

Any ideas of what is going on here?  It is a relatively new WD 1Gig
drive (Cavier, 21000).

Note: I had already run "bad144 -s -v wd1", and left it to check out
the disk, and when I got back, all I saw on the screen was the 
bad144: bad sector... message.  I then ran it with no flags to get
the above message.
-- 
- Mike
  mdwhite@ucdavis.edu