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- From: vturner@nmsu.edu (Vaughan Turner)
- Subject: Help! Hard Drive in NeXT won't newfs!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.170624.25924@nmsu.edu>
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- Organization: New Mexico State University
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:06:24 GMT
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- Hello,
-
- I have a NeXT '040 cube with a 200M drive in it. Up until yesterday, it
- was working fine.
-
- I have successfully net booted it off of a NeXTStation, but I can't get
- it to newfs properly. When writing the super-block backups, it get a
- write error at a random place on the disk, with the error:
-
- 16, ..., 45736,write error: 48416
- wtfs: Error 0
-
- I think I need a low level formatting utility that can mark bad blocks after
- verifying the disk. Is there a built-in NeXT utility to do this? I looked
- at sdform and disk, but neither seems to handle anything but pristine disks.
-
- Is there a utility on the net to do this? A long time ago, I got a util
- called reassignblock, and in the readme it mentions formatdisk, but I can't
- find it with archie, or on a few common NeXT ftp sites.
-
- Any help would be appreciated,
-
- Thanks,
-
- Vaughan
- VaughAn Turner Internet: vturner@nmsu.edu
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- VaughAn Turner Internet: vturner@nmsu.edu
- Networking/Workstation Support Box 30001, Dept. 3AT
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- New Mexico State University 88003-0001
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