AC 3 install failures - PWS500au

[Ken Raeburn]

On May 6, 2007, at 23:17, Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 23:08:38 -0400
>> From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn at raeburn.org>
>>
>> <6>SELinux: initialized (dev hda, type iso9660) uses genfs_contexts
>> <6>sd 0:0:1:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x8000002
>> <6>sda: Current: sense key: Medium Error
>> <6>   Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - recommend rewrite
>> the data
>> <6>Info fld=0x10bb9f0
>> <4>end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 17545712
>>
>> So, it appears I've got some kind of disk problem on the disk I'm
>> installing to, and the install system hides it from me.
>
> If /dev/sda is the CDROM you're installing from, you might
> see if there is a hard-disk installation method available.

No, it's the disk I'm installing to.  Further testing with dd seems  
to confirm that there are bad blocks.  I'm testing whether simply  
writing over the entire disk will revector enough bad blocks that I  
can keep using it, but I suspect not.

Ken

P.S.  After I get finished with this machine I'll get back to dealing  
with the AlphaStation install problem I reported at the same time.