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- From: duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] corrupt files
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.132839.15621@rtf.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 13:28:39 GMT
- References: <56750001@acf3.NYU.EDU>
- Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK
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- In article <56750001@acf3.NYU.EDU> chapman@acf3.NYU.EDU (Gary W. Chapman, , , ) writes:
- >After downloading 386BSD from agate.berkeley.edu (and from another place
- >as well), I get
- >
- >bin01.02 is corrupt
- >bin01.03 is corrupt
- >
- >when doing 'extract'. What can I do?
-
- They may not actually be corrupt! I had this problem (with different
- bin01.xx files) and it was caused by the kernel from dist.fs not
- reporting errors on my ESDI drives. I resolved this problem by getting
- a kernel from a guy in Germany that reports these errors, relabelling
- the disk's with bad144-style "sector forwarding" ('sf' in /etc/disktab)
- then running "dd if=/dev/wd0c of=/dev/null bs=<bytesize of 1 cyl.>".
- Write down the bad sector reports and then use bad144 to mark them as
- bad. This takes a while (though it looks worse than it really is, as
- the kernel reports the same bad sector about 5 times). Once you have
- done this you can restart the installation.
-
- BTW if you're stuck for a kernel, I can build you one that reports
- errors to whatever spec you like.
-
-
-
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- Andy Duplain, BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK. duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk
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