From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 2 11:29:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.241.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C389B37B422 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 11:29:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA22402; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 20:29:45 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <39B14718.3D9E9146@gmx.de> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 20:29:44 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Larry Rosenman , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: bad block on an IDE drive References: <20000902091231.A1358@lerami.lerctr.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Larry, > How do I map out some bad blocks on an IDE drive under current > 4.1-STABLE? (CVSUP'd yesterday). Donīt know the FreeBSD way. But normally I would backup my data on it and then low level format the disk. This will recognize and remap the bad sectors. A tool doing this for IDE disks is freely available from Maxtor. Be aware, that if your disk starts having bad sectors, this process often will continue (microparticles between head and surface, for example). So I wouldnīt store my most valuable data on it. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message