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From: garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Infamous "Bad Disk" message...
Keywords: optical disk bad
Message-ID: <1084@nada.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 91 08:01:16 GMT
References: <1083@nada.cs.utexas.edu>
Organization: University of Texas at Austin
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In article <1083@nada.cs.utexas.edu> garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) writes:
>Well, its finally (after only three months actually) happened to me.
>
>I attempted to boot my od + 40MB swapdisk 030 cube yesterday and
>received the "Bad Disk" icon.  Booting using bod from monitor
>mode gives:
>
>	od0a: read failed (uncorrectable ECC error) 4149:0:0
>	od0a: read failed (uncorrectable ECC error) 4149:0:2
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I wrote the above note...  The reason I am replying to my own post
is that this same optical disk that refused to boot at least four
times in a row is now working perfectly.  This has me at least as
worried as when it stopped working...  What is going on?  Could
this have something to do with the defective optical disk drives
(being replaced by NeXT) mentioned in a previous post?

-- 
John Garnett
                              University of Texas at Austin
garnett@cs.utexas.edu         Department of Computer Science
                              Austin, Texas