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From: mcormick@unm-la.UUCP (Patrick McCormick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: mkfs bug??? 8(
Keywords: Setting up fixed disk fs
Message-ID: <1098@unm-la.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 89 18:06:57 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico - Los Alamos
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	Hi,

	I recently had a problem with my fixed disk and was forced to
	re-format and re-parttion the disk to get Minix to work again.
	(Or so I thought.)  I've checked the hard disk for bad sectors
	and done a low level format but when I try to use mkfs to set
	up the new file systems like so,

	# mkfs /dev/hd1 3399

	I get the error : put_block couldn't write
			  line 1 being processed when error dectected.

	I've tried the orginal 1.2 disks as well as the back-ups that 
	I had made and still get the same error (I've also tried the 1.1
	source disks.)  Is this a bug in mkfs or is something else happening?

	I've tried /dev/hd2, /dev/hd3, and /dev/hd4 and have still had
	the same problem.

	Any help would be appreicated.

	Thanks,

	Pat McCormick
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