From: Michael Widenius Date: April 15 1999 1:36am Subject: Wrong bytesec? List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/1873 Message-Id: <14101.16829.490472.404442@monty.pp.sci.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> "Jay" == Jay Miller writes: Jay> Could someone tell me what "Wrong bytesec" means? I am working on a Jay> "Difficult repair" of a corruped table. When I run 'isamchk -o' I get Jay> several of the following sorts of messages: Jay> Wrong bytesec: 50- 49- 54 at 157976034; Skipped Jay> Wrong bytesec: 54- 56- 49 at 157973127; Skipped Jay> I can't find anywhere what this means or what I should do about it. When Jay> isamchk is done I check again and it says my table is still corrupted. I'm Jay> currently trying a second pass with 'isamchk -o' ('isamchk -r' fails with Jay> message "isamchk: error: 9 when closing ISAM-table"). Jay> Thanks, Jay> Jay Miller Jay> SOCKET Internet Services Jay> Columbia, MO, US Hi! The above means that some link in the ISAM file has been overwritten. isamchk (when run with -r or -ro) should be able to fix this. If not, you can always ftp the table to ftp://www.mysql.com/pub/mysql/secret so that we can check why isamchk doesn't work. Which MySQL version are you using? If you are using a very old one, you should upgrade your isamchk from an newer MySQL distribution and try again (there has been very few errors with isamchk, but it shouldn't hurt to upgrade isamchk and try again) Regards, Monty