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1 total messages Started by Ken Foster Thu, 06 Aug 1992 16:56
reassurance needed on disk repair
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Author: Ken Foster
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 16:56
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Recently one of the disks on our Sun 4/370 began spitting out the 
following errors:

xd1h: read retry (header not found) -- blk #1195844, abs blk #1228406
xd1h: read retry (header not found) -- blk #1195846, abs blk #1228408
xd1h: read failed (header not found) -- blk #1195846, abs blk #1228408
rfs_read: map failed, error = 5
xd1h: read retry (header not found) -- blk #1195846, abs blk #1228408
xd1h: read fixed (seek retry) -- blk #1195840, abs blk #1228402

I've listed what I've done to correct it below. I guess what I'm looking
for is some assurance that I did the right thing, or for someone to tell
me I left something out. Any experiences, good or bad, would help. 

First we backed the thing up on tape. (It took several tries to get a
good tape). Then, we "diffed" the tape to the disk (also took several
attempts). We unmounted it, then got into the format menu and ran the
analyze program. It said it had corrected about 55 media errors. Then I
formatted it with no problems. Just to be on the safe side, I ran the
analyze again in compare mode, and let it loop continuous for 40 passes.
There were no errors. I formatted again, just to be sure. I couldn't
think of any reason to relabel the disk, so I didn't. 

I'm fishing for some opinions on the subject before I put the data back
on. Thanks in advance.

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