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Date:      Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:47:01 +0300
From:      "Vladislav V. Zhuk" <admin@dru.dn.ua>
To:        "D. G. Lawrence" <dg@dglawrence.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fsck lasting several hours (and then forever) after crash
Message-ID:  <20021025064701.GA51165@dru.dn.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20021025060420.GV49215@nexus.root.com>
References:  <lists.freebsd.stable.20021024152331.GA43887@xor.obsecurity.org> <lists.freebsd.stable.20021024161227.GA248@Deadcell.ant> <3DB8228B.90203@vpop.net> <20021024201833.GA259@Deadcell.ant> <20021025044650.GA46167@dru.dn.ua> <20021025060420.GV49215@nexus.root.com>

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:04:21PM -0700, D. G. Lawrence wrote:

> >> Now that is a good idear! Thanks. I dropped to single user mode and did
> >> dd if=/dev/ad4s1h of=/dev/null bs=64k. It appears that fsck is not the problem
> >> but my disk is going bad.
> >
> >Every harddisk will be bad one day. fsck MUST be able to mark bad blocks
> >and recover residuary data on the disk. Or freebsd must have another tool
> >for recover data from harddisk with bad blocks.
> >Why under other OS it's a no problem?? (one week ago I recover FreeBSD data
> >under M$ DOS. FreeBSD can't do anything with partition with bad blocks,
> >fsck even can't finish check).
> >Why other OS has tools for test surface HDD ??
> >
> >I like FreeBSD, but this OS absolutely don't ready for problem with disks,
> >that will come soon or late with every HDD !!
> >
> >(I know about backup, RAID and other. I troubled by problem discovered
> >above).
> >
> >Sorry for my english.
>
>    It's apparantly a problem with the ATA driver, and not a problem with
> fsck. fsck actually does deal with bad blocks and can normally get past
> them if they are reported properly by the driver.

I agree with you. But problem need to be resolved.

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