On 2003-02-17 11:47, "Paul A. Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There were some ATA complaints, (don't recall exactly what though it
> was clear that there were read errors), when attempting to boot the
> system off the HD.
Were they "fsbn" errors? The disk that caused the following in my
/var/
There were some ATA complaints, (don't recall exactly what though it was
clear that there were read errors), when attempting to boot the system
off the HD. I don't recall "medium error" there, and have not seen it
in fsck_ffs booted from the live cd. The sector numbers I'm seeing seem
to be i
Thus spake Paul A. Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm presently running fsck_ffs from a live cd. It fsck'ed / with some
> complaints about an unreadable sector. It's now on /var and reporting
> vast, vast numbers of sectors as unreadable, with "UNEXPECTED SOFT
> UPDATE INCONSISTENCY". I've not
H. I think that my 5.0R installation has self destructed.
Background:
* 60GB toshiba disk with two active OS partitions (win2k, freebsd)
booted with ranish
* Freebsd partition has 4 slices, swap (ca. 2GB), root (250MB), var
(250MB), usr (ca. 6GB), other msdosfs partitions are occassionally
