From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 24 6:11:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ct980320-b.blmngtn1.in.home.com (ct980320-b.blmngtn1.in.home.com [65.8.207.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A62437B43E for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 06:11:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikes@ct980320-b.blmngtn1.in.home.com) Received: (from mikes@localhost) by ct980320-b.blmngtn1.in.home.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3ODBQW08701; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:11:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mikes) From: Mike Squires Message-Id: <200104241311.f3ODBQW08701@ct980320-b.blmngtn1.in.home.com> Subject: Re: Apache + php4 problem, probably solved. In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.1.20010424231436.02358ec0@pop3.paradise.net.nz> "from David Preece at Apr 24, 2001 11:18:34 pm" To: David Preece Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:11:26 -0500 (EST) Cc: FreeBSD questions X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL88 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > subject, how can I pre-empt something like this? How can I get FreeBSD to > do a scan of the surface of the disk for these 'hard read errors', or is it > a question of RAID if it's that important... The best way is with a utility that works on the disk at a low level, a la SCSI. I don't know if this is available for your ATA drive. If not, see "man badsect". (I use SCSI only, cheaper if you use old server hardware, so I have no direct experience with this method). MLS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message