Help Needed--Hard disk media error

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2 total messages Started by W. H. Pan Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:18

#1548

Author: W. H. Pan
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:18

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Hi,

I was getting some media errors on my internal hard drive the other day. I was
told that a low level format would correct those errors. Well, I used disk to
perform the format and the initialization. But the media errors continued. I
guess I'm doing something wrong, could someone here please email me the
solution. Thanks. Any help will be much appreciated.

Hard disk media errors

#1563

Author: Wesley C. Smith
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:06

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I have a new disk drive (Toshiba MK538FB) and have been getting several media
errors. So for it has had about 10 in three weeks, one of which caused some
files to be lost. None of the media errors has occured twice on the same
block. Does that mean that 3.0 has marked those blocks as bad, the blocks
are borderline bad, or that my lightly used system hasn't tried to read
those blocks again?

What needs to be done about the Media errors? Please e-mail any suggestions or
comments. I have included the errors from /usr/adm/messages at the end.

Thanks,

Wes Smith
wes@arissoft.com  (NeXTmail)

	   Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 22a921H retry 1
	   Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 1657bH retry 1
Jan  7 15:59:23 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block e8411H retry 1
Jan  7 16:14:55 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 1dd52dH retry 1
Jan  8 15:50:18 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 20bafH retry 1
Jan  9 10:41:43 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 20babH retry 1
Jan 13 02:04:35 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 189a09H retry 1
Jan 20 02:00:25 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 21d9c7H retry 1
Jan 21 18:30:50 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 224167H retry 1
Jan 21 02:00:19 arissoft mach: bad block -118620160, <3>/: bad block
Jan 23 02:01:27 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 1dd521H retry 1
Jan 23 02:04:10 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 122fdfH retry 1

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