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From: Wong Chin Pang <ch_wcp@stu.ust.hk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Help! Help! Help!
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 21:03:02 +0800
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I'm using FreeBSD 2.1.6...
A serious error occur when booting (initialize stage during checking
harddisk):

wd0s2f: hard error reading fsbn ... status 59 <seekdone, drq, err> error
40 <uncorr>

My harddisk (IDE) do have some bad sectors... i think the problem is
caused by it... How can i fix it?

UNIX beginner
ch_wcp@stu.ust.hk