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Started by Brad Hemminger
Fri, 21 Jul 1989 15:29
format(8) problem
Author: Brad Hemminger
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1989 15:29
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1989 15:29
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Some of our RL02 cartridges have hard errors on them. As part of the process of restoring them to usefulness I'm formatting them. I format the RL02 disk then attempt to do a newfs on it; however the newfs fails with write errors. I am unsure whether format is actually doing anything because (1) it takes 0 time from the format message to the done message, and (2) I can specify *anything* for #tracks and #cylinders and it always comes back the same (with the Done message). If anyone has suggestions on what I might doing wrong or if there is a problem with format, or my usage of it, please let me know. Thanks, Brad Hemminger Dept of Radiology bmh@cs.unc.edu Specifics... Format ------------------------------------------------------------------------ debugging: 0 device: rl(0,0) (this parts checks out as it checks device to see if it's actually there) start cylinder: 0 start track: 0 End cylinder: 31 (have tried 300, 500) End track: 1 (have tried 500, 3000) Pattern: 2 Max errors: 3 Start formatting...make sure the drive is online Done (it takes zero time to complete!) On another 11/730.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # newfs /dev/rb1a rb02 write error: 15883 wtfs: I/O error #
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