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- From: wsmith@cs.utexas.edu (Wesley C. Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Hard disk media errors
- Summary: What needs to be done with media errors?
- Keywords: Media Errors, Disk, Bad Blocks
- Message-ID: <1k3nicINNjnt@im4u.cs.utexas.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 04:06:36 GMT
- Article-I.D.: im4u.1k3nicINNjnt
- References: <1993Jan26.151807.12447@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: Wesley C. Smith
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- I have a new disk drive (Toshiba MK538FB) and have been getting several media
- errors. So for it has had about 10 in three weeks, one of which caused some
- files to be lost. None of the media errors has occured twice on the same
- block. Does that mean that 3.0 has marked those blocks as bad, the blocks
- are borderline bad, or that my lightly used system hasn't tried to read
- those blocks again?
-
- What needs to be done about the Media errors? Please e-mail any suggestions or
- comments. I have included the errors from /usr/adm/messages at the end.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Wes Smith
- wes@arissoft.com (NeXTmail)
-
- Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 22a921H retry 1
- Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 1657bH retry 1
- Jan 7 15:59:23 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block e8411H retry 1
- Jan 7 16:14:55 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 1dd52dH retry 1
- Jan 8 15:50:18 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 20bafH retry 1
- Jan 9 10:41:43 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 20babH retry 1
- Jan 13 02:04:35 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 189a09H retry 1
- Jan 20 02:00:25 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 21d9c7H retry 1
- Jan 21 18:30:50 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 224167H retry 1
- Jan 21 02:00:19 arissoft mach: bad block -118620160, <3>/: bad block
- Jan 23 02:01:27 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 1dd521H retry 1
- Jan 23 02:04:10 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 122fdfH retry 1
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