CAN NOT READ BLK xxxxx is fsck

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When doing  "fsck /dev/rusr1", I get three messages like the following:
   CAN NOT READ BLK 31993
Two occur in Phase 1, then in Phase 5 I get another CAN NOT READ message,
followed by a message saying
   4437 BLK(S) MISSING
   BAD FREE LIST
   SALVAGE? y <---------
 
No matter how much I try running fsck, I keep getting these errors.  Does
anyone out there have suggestions how to fix this?
 
I am running SCO OpenDesktop Unix V 3.2 with an Ultrastor controller and a
micropolis ESDI-1647-7 (150 MB) fixed disk).
 
Marsh Feldman
Community Planning
204 Rodman Hall
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881-0815
(rln101 @ uriacc.uri.edu)
401/792-2248

	Just answer "yes" to salvage question and that's all. At least,
I have 21 Sparcs and sometimes I got that messages ( When the light
goes down and the machines stops without the "shutdown") and I answer yes
to any message I got. Only one time a message like "Inode Truncated"
I answered "no" to clear and reboot the machine, the I got the same message
and I answered "yes" and the machine crashed forever and I had to re-install
the operating system. If you answer "no" to messages like
"salvage", "clear", "fix", you will obtain the same message the next time.

	Good luck and don't worry .....

	


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