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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!europa.clark.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.apfel.de!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news.radio.cz!newsbreeder.radio.cz!news.cesnet.cz!ns.felk.cvut.cz!not-for-mail From: Tomas Horacek <kaktus@bsdi.infima.cz> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Format error in bad-sector file Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:25:24 +0000 Organization: INFIMA Lines: 45 Distribution: world Message-ID: <330CA524.7B03@bsdi.infima.cz> References: <330BA102.4CB5@pinehurst.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: audrey.infima.cz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b2 (WinNT; I) To: beth@pinehurst.net X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6050 Beth Morgan wrote: > > Has anyone seen this error before? I just installed 2 new Maxtor 3.5 gb > hard drives on my Cyrix 200+ machine running BSDI 2.1 (Internet Server). > When I newfs'ed them, I received an error "format error in bad-sector > file". The disks seem to be fine though. I'm testing them with a > newsfeed for a few days, so I won't suffer any serious consequences if I > really do have some errors. I did run diskdefect, which also had errors > like: > diskdefect bad-sector file 4 is jumbled > diskdefect cannot locate valid bad block table > diskdefect cannot find defect list > > This all leads me to believe that it's not the disks that have problems, > it's the file that diskdefect was supposed to write to that has the > problem. > > Has anyone had a similar experience? > > Thanks, > Beth I had same problem recently. I also tried to install additional disk and I got same message. As I think the problem is in wrong installation procedure. After succesfull disksetup use following commands : # diskdefect -wsa <disk> Example: # diskdefect -wsa wd1 than use : # newfs /dev/r[w,s]d1a "w for IDE, s for SCSI disk" All of this is described on this address : http://www.bsdi.com/support/faq/BSD_OS-2.1/adding-second-disk.etx -- Tomas HORACEK INFIMA s.r.o. kaktus@bsdi.infima.cz