Hi again,

I created a few partitions during a fresh 3.1 install,
and for some reason one of them seems to be bad. Does
my HDD have bad sectors?

I'm attaching disklabel and fsck output. Any
suggestions? Thanks!

# using MBR partition 3: type A6 off 63 (0x3f) size
2128833 (0x207bc1)
# /dev/rwd0c:
type: ESDI
disk: ESDI/IDE disk
label: QUANTUM FIREBALL
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 2112
total sectors: 2128896
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds
drivedata: 0

16 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
  a: 81585 63 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
# (Cyl. 0*- 80)
  b: 262080 81648 swap
# (Cyl. 81 - 340)
  c: 2128896 0 unused 0 0
# (Cyl. 0 - 2111)
  d: 819504 343728 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
# (Cyl. 341 - 1153)
  e: 102816 1163232 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
# (Cyl. 1154 - 1255)
  f: 102816 1266048 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
# (Cyl. 1256 - 1357)

fsck:

** /dev/rwd0f
BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG

LOOK FOR ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS? [yn] y
SEARCH FOR ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK FAILED. YOU MUST USE
THE
-b OPTION TO FSCK_FFS TO SPECIFY THE LOCATION OF AN
ALTERNATE
SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE
fsck_ffs(8).
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