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From: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: /usr/adm/unix.log errors, what's these?
Keywords: Errors, log, hard drive
Message-ID: <297@icus.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 04:47:27 GMT
References: <294@icus.UUCP> <405@pcbox.UUCP>
Reply-To: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano)
Distribution: unix-pc
Organization: ICUS Computer Group, Islip, NY
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In article <405@pcbox.UUCP> pjc@pcbox.UUCP (Paul J. Condie) writes:
|>In article <294@icus.UUCP> I write:
|>>What are these errors, and what should I do?
|>>
|>>/usr/adm/unix.log:
|>>
|>>baddma:FF3F Thu Mar 10 21:16:53 1988
|>>
|>This refers to badd mather(mother).  The solution to this problem is to stand up
|>in the middle of the room point your finger at your box 
|>and say "yea, your mather".  That should take care of the problem.
|>If that doesn't work you probably have a bad mother board.
|>

I thought it stood for BAD DMA for Direct Memory Access.  I was wondering
why this happened?

|>
|>>HDERR ST:51 EF:40 CL:FFC0 CH:FF03 SN:FF0F SC:FF01 SDH:FF24 DMACNT:FFFF DCRREG:94 MCRREG:9900 Sat Mar 12 06:07:43 1988
|>>
|>This usually means you have a bad spot on you hard disk that is not entered
|>into the bad spot table.  AT&T told me to reinitialize my hard disk. I did.
|>And the problem went away.
|>
|>>drv:0 part:2 blk:56415 rpts:1 Sat Mar 12 14:39:28 1988
|>>
|>Probably the same problem????

Couldn't I add the blocks using the diagnostic disk "s4test" and add
blocks to the bad block table?  If so how would I do that?  Is the blk #
the physical sector, etc??

							-Lenny
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