[Sunhelp] Problem on external Hard Drive

[Michael C. Vergallen]

Okey ... the sector is bad so try to relocate your partition so it does
not use block 16 to 32 by checking for bad blocks first before formatting
the disc.

Michael
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On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Aryanto Rachmad wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> I have a problem with SCSI external hardisk of my Sun SPARC/10.
> I received this following message after I reboot this machine:
> 
>  .
> /dev/rdsk/c0t5d0s7: CANNOT READ: BLK 16
> /dev/rdsk/c0t5d0s7: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY
>  .
> 
> But after I executed the fsck command, I got this message:
>       
> # fsck -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c0t5d0s7
> ** /dev/rdsk/c0t5d0s7
> 
> CANNOT READ: BLK 16
> CONTINUE? yes
> 
> THE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
>  24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
> # 
> 
> So, I decided to re-format this hardisk using format command, but
> the problem still occur. I have already tried to change the partition
> and format it again, but it still did not fix the problem.
> 
> Do I need to do a low level format? If so, how to do a low level
> format on Solaris 2.5.1 environment? Could someone tell me how to
> include this bad block in the defect list? Could you please give
> some advice what should I do?
> 
> The following is the configuration of that hardisk:
> 
> format> inquiry
> Vendor:   SEAGATE 
> Product:  ST11200N SUN1.05
> Revision: 9500
> 
> format> current
> Current Disk = c0t5d0
> <SUN1.05 cyl 2036 alt 2 hd 14 sec 72>
> /iommu at f,e0000000/sbus at f,e0001000/espdma at f,400000/esp at f,800000/sd at 5,0
> 
> # prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t5d0s7
> * /dev/rdsk/c0t5d0s7 partition map
> *
> * Dimensions:
> *     512 bytes/sector
> *      72 sectors/track
> *      14 tracks/cylinder
> *    1008 sectors/cylinder
> *    2038 cylinders
> *    2036 accessible cylinders
> *
> * Flags:
> *   1: unmountable
> *  10: read-only
> *
> *                          First     Sector    Last
> * Partition  Tag  Flags    Sector     Count    Sector  Mount Directory
>        0      2    00          0   2052288   2052287
> # 
> 
> Thank you very much in advance for your advice.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Anto
> 
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