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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How do I interpret bad144 error mesages?
Date: 2 Mar 1997 22:49:36 GMT
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"Jeffrey M. Metcalf" <Jeffrey_M._Metcalf@ccMail.bms.com> wrote:

> bad144: /dev/wd0s2: bad flag in bad-sector table bad144: /dev/wd0s2:
> bad magic number
> bad144: cyl/trk/sect out of range in existing entry: sn=62466193,
> cn=15491, tn=1 00, sn=181

Have you ever initialized the bad144 table at all?  It's years ago
that i've been using my last ESDI drive that required bad144, but i
remember...

I think you need to

	bad144 /dev/rwd0s2 0

to initialize it.  Btw., *never* use the block device for this kind of
operation, always use the raw device.

-- 
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. ;-)