MONGER@mcmaster.ca (10/24/89)
We have a Sparcstation 1 with 2 104 mbyte disks. / and /usr are mounted on sd0, and we use the b partitions of both disks for swap. The g partition on the 2nd disk (sd1) is also mounted for user files. I tried to make use of sd1a, but it fails fsck. The error message is CAN NOT READ: BLK 201824 (CONTINUE) According to the manual, this should never happen and I should see a guru. Unfortunately, my guru moved away, so I am hoping I can borrow one of yours. When I tell fsck to continue, it comes back to tell me that it could not read blocks 201824 - 201827. If i look at the defect list with format, I see that there are defects at cylinder 961 sectors 14-17. Since this disk is 974 cylinders 6 heads/cyl 35 sectors/head, that works out to block number 201824 all right. What puzzles me is why this error occurs when I fsck sd1a, given that my partition table looks like so: partition start cyl blocks a 0 16170 (77/0/0) b 77 21840 (134/0/0) c 0 204540 (974/0/0) d 0 0 (0/0/0) e 0 0 (0/0/0) f 0 0 (0/0/0) g 211 160230 (763/0/0) h 0 0 (0/0/0) I (wrongly?) assumed that this means that partition a is the 16170 contiguous blocks starting from cylinder 0. And even if this is not the case, these aren't the only defects on the disk. Why do they cause fsck to fail? It seems to fail straightaway. Thanks for any help you can give me on this. Patricia Monger monger@mcmaster.ca