From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 14 07:46:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8327216A4CE for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 07:46:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EBDF43D48 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 07:46:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com ([66.30.196.44]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004031415462301500sfjdle>; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 15:46:24 +0000 Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 3A4B6E; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 10:46:23 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Chad M Stewart References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 14 Mar 2004 10:46:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <441xnvl9dd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Checking hard disks for bad sectors? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 15:46:24 -0000 Chad M Stewart writes: > I've wiped Linux from my older server and am going to be putting > FreeBSD 4.9 on it. I've got 4 drives of various sizes and some are > quite old. I'd like to run some sort of utility on the drives to > check for and mark bad sectors. Is there something in the ports > collection to enable me to do this? Well, there are some ways to do this, but you're almost certainly wrong about wanting to do it at all. See the FAQ entry "What do I do when I have bad blocks on my hard drive?": http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#AWRE