Re: wd0a:hard error

[Chris Cappuccio <chris@sefl.satelnet.org>]

On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Aaron Jackson wrote:

> When I woke up this morning I saw that the hard disk light was on, but I
> didn't hear any noise comming from from it.  After a restart and a
> 'fsck_ffs /dev/rwd0a' I got this message:
> 
> wd0a:hard error reading fsbn 57408 of 65-175 (wd0 bn 57471; cn 7 tn 72 sn 15)
> 
> I answered yes to all the fsck questions (removing /bin and a few other
> files) and the drive was marked clean.  Does anybody know what this
> means?  I think this drive is still under warrenty, so if it is bad I'll
> take it back, if not, would a clean install be of any help?
> 

Take it back!

*--chris at satelnet.org--*