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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 19:55:30 -0500
From: Beth Morgan <beth@pinehurst.net>
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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