08-12-2003
While looking for some command help last night, I found a command somewhere that would run a disk scan. I was afraid to run it destructive as I am not sure where we are going from this point and didn't want to do anything that was non-repairable... The command was "badtrk," this will apparently block that section of the drive and keep it from being used. From my best guess it seems to be a lot like Windows Scan Disk in that reguard. Except I am not familiar with it enough to know what it will and won't do and I do not want it deleting the data that is located in that block of the drive.
When the system boots, it comes up to the login screen. Once you enter the user and password, then it starts showing all the errors. I am able to navigate the file structure and access most anything, so I am under the impression that I am logged into root.
There is a floppy drive in this machine. The local technician was very adimant about running daily backups of the database. So, we should be able to rebuild without too much problems.
I will check into the .profile file and see what I can find. We were able to find some other software in another location as well, so we may very well be able to replace the hard drive and reload without too many more problems.
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NAME
rxformat - format floppy disks (2.11BSD)
SYNOPSIS
rxformat special
DESCRIPTION
The rxformat program formats a diskette in the specified drive associated with the special device special. Special is normally /dev/rrx0?,
for drive 0, or /dev/rrx1?, for drive 1, where ``?'' is either "a" or "b" to indicate single or double density access. The ``raw'' device
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DIAGNOSTICS
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sages are selfexplanatory.
FILES
/dev/rrx??
SEE ALSO
rx(4)
AUTHOR
Helge Skrivervik
BUGS
A floppy may not be formatted if the header info on sector 1, track 0 has been damaged. Hence, it is not possible to format a completely
degaussed disk. (This is actually a problem in the hardware.)
3rd Berkeley Distribution November 17, 1996 RXFORMAT(8)