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From: tunny.bbs@bbs.net.tsinghua.edu.cn
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Subject: /dev/rwd0a was bad
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>Number:         2396
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       /dev/rwd0a was bad
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          support
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan  7 04:20:01 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Sun Jan 12 20:50:41 MET 1997
>Last-Modified:  Sun Jan 12 20:51:55 MET 1997
>Originator:     Min Huang (tunny)
>Release:        2.1.6
>Organization:
KH2
>Environment:
P5/100
Quenterm fireball 1280A LBA MODEL
Tri 64 V+
>Description:
When I were working under X11R6, the screen suddenly bedlam(now it seemd
that the reason of my vga card), then I reset the computer.
After the FreeBSD tested hardware, it showd:
Automatic reboot inn progress
/dev/rwd0a: bad file descriptor
can't stat /dev/rwd0a
/dev/wd0a: /dev/wd0a is not a character device
/dev/wd0a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY
.........

after I enter the single model sh and use fsck
fsck
/dev/rwd0a: bad file descriptor
can't stat /dev/rwd0a
/dev/rwd0a is not a character device
continue? [yn]

the other disk were find.

How should I do? please direct me. Thanks for any help.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
I don't know.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: tunny.bbs@bbs.net.tsinghua.edu.cn
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/2396: /dev/rwd0a was bad
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 00:51:45 +0100

 As tunny.bbs@bbs.net.tsinghua.edu.cn wrote:
 
 > after I enter the single model sh and use fsck
 > fsck
 > /dev/rwd0a: bad file descriptor
 > can't stat /dev/rwd0a
 > /dev/rwd0a is not a character device
 > continue? [yn]
 > 
 > the other disk were find.
 > 
 > How should I do? please direct me. Thanks for any help.
 
 You need a fixit floppy, and try to recreate the dead /dev/rwd0a.  You
 can find an image for a sample fixit floppy in the directory floppies/
 on the CD-ROM.
 
 Backups are certainly also valuable in your situation.
 
 (Better direct this kind of questions to questions@freebsd.org, it's
 not strictly a problem report.)
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: joerg 
State-Changed-When: Sun Jan 12 20:50:41 MET 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
Not a bug report per se. 

Basically, the originator didn't know how to use a fixit floppy. 
The origin of the crash itself looks like some local hardware 
problem. 

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