tridge@aerodec.anu.edu.au (Andrew Tridgell) (12/22/90)
Hi, I've recently upgraded to Ultrix 4.0 on a DS3100. In doing so two bad blocks reared their ugly heads on our RZ56 disk (in the g partition /usr). Whenever the files on these sectors are looked at a "panic" occurs and the machine reboots. This is now a happy state of affairs. Even something as simple as "ls -s /usr/BAD" will cause a total shutdown (I have moved the directory to /usr/BAD - I know it contains about 5 files of less than 1k each) Although I have isolated the directory and have locked it off from casual users I would really like to fix the problem permanently. Will rzdisk -r fix the problem? fsck gives me the block numbers (567664 and 567665 in case it matters) so I can use rzdisk but will this lead to more problems in the future? Thanks in advance for any help Merry Christmas! --- Andrew Tridgell tridge@aerodec.anu.edu.au