sardella@tdw254.ed.ray.com (01/28/91)
I been having some problems with my unix-pc. First the smgr would die after running for a little while and the phone manager would not run properly. I reformatted the hard and ran that check that takes about 20 minutes. In the check that took 20 minutes it gave some bad block(5) and supposely fix them. I installed the founddation set (3.5) , unix utilities, phone manager and other systems software. Then after a while I use a command like ls and system would come back with illegal instruction and other weird message. I sync the disk and ls would work again. I guest the question is, Is my hard drive trashed and is there any way to get around this? Before I buy a new hard drive I want to make sure this is the problem. I going going to reformat my hard drive and try installing software again but I don't think that will solve the problem. -- Norman "STORMIN" Sardella Work: sardella@sud509.ed.ray.com Leisure: sardella@world.std.com Home: uunet!world!stormy!norm
n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu (Brent Burton) (04/25/91)
As I posted yesterday, my drive came in. I'm not worrying about the
preservation of the old software - I've that figured out now.
I'm having a problem getting the drive formatted and creating the filesystem.
Drive details: Heads: 7 Cyl: 1314 (80Mb MFM)
Bad Blocks (from factory):
CYL HEAD BYTE LOCATION
208 4 1635
515 6 257
693 0 2385
791 5 4410
792 5 4571
793 5 4572
947 6 6595
1068 0 6745
I format the drive and enter the above info into the bad block table. (BTW,
I'm using the 3.51 Diagnostics disk.)
The surface test reveals CYL 207, H 4, Sector 2 is bad and it's relocated.
This is all the surface test finds.
After the formatting and tests, the drive has 73584 total blocks (1K logical)
with Partition 0 having 52, Par 1 having 5000 (swap), and the userspace
has 68528 blocks. Are these numbers supposed to sum to 73584? If so,
why don't these? Hints?
The formatting appears to work OK - once the bad blocks are entered, the
read tests work fine, as do the next random seek tests.
The main problem is with the Floppy Boot disk and it's Filesystem disk. When
these disks are used to install the new OS, mkfs fails about a minute into
its work with a "write error at 68328". This block, which corresponds to
Cyl 1220, H 1, Sector 0, is entered (by me) into the bad block list via the
dianostics. However, when I try the mkfs again, it fails at the same spot.
Can anyone offer suggestions or other knowledge I might need to know to pull
this off? I've formatted raw drives before on other systems, but this 7300
is just some new territory. Please email any responses.
Brent Burton
n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu