Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:3774 comp.sys.att:7638 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!milano!peyote!nidhog!root From: root@nidhog.nidhog.cactus.org (Root) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att Subject: sick disk?! Message-ID:Date: 25 Sep 89 04:24:48 GMT Sender: root@nidhog.cactus.org Distribution: na Organization: Capitol Area Central Texas UNIX Society (CACTUS), Austin, Texas. Lines: 26 HALP! Nidhog's disk is very sick I have a brand new(6 mo.) miniscribe 3085, an even newer(1 mo.) WD 2010 controller, and a two week old 3b1 power suppply. Nidhog had a 7300 1 meg on board 2 meg expansion dos board and am running 3.50 OS. The disk works well most of the time but occasionally the hard disk makes an awful noise ``brrrrrrrr...spriong-griong-griong''. The status manager(smgr) flickers or dies sysinfo responst /dev/rfp002 can't read superblock. The disk is gone. Well diagnostics ran and responded error on check read when ever this happens. The only thing I can think of is bad power. If any one out there has had a similar experience :*(. Or has any helpful suggestions Please Let me know. The only consistant response I got from the diags was that block # 3168 was bad. How I convert the block that diagnostics gives from surface test to a logical block that I can give to the badblock table stuff? Thanks in advance. -- Henry D. Reynolds @'s: @nidhog.cactus.org 1718 Valeria !'s: {cs.utexas.edu,texbell}!helps!nidhog!hdr Austin, Texas 78751 IBM: cs.utexas.edu!auschs!leperc.austin.ibm.com!hdr HOME: (512)448-3617 WORK: (512)823-4348