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Date:      Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:55:34 -0500 (CDT)
From:      John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com>
To:        questions freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   soft read errors (oh noooo..)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970901223858.244A-100000@barnowl>

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Greetings, 

I'm limping along with soft read errors on the /usr and /var file
systems. It started with the same numbers and has since included new ones.
The drive is an 850MB, two years old, IDE (I know, I know...).

Does FreeBSD map bad blocks on configuration/installation? I don't
remember. One other question I'm nervous about, do those power center
thingys under the monitor do bad things even if the disks are all
sync'ed on normal shutdown? (Those flat boxes with slight surge
protection and a switch for each device)

I have all of my data on another drive (backed up, of course) and don't
want to excercise things much till I decide if trashing the disk is 
necessary. What are the alternatives?

Please cc me directly, as I'm not on the list while this is going on.

Thanks for your support!

John



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