From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 04:26:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA18623 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 04:26:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com (link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA18608 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 04:26:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za) X-Disclaimer: Contents of this e-mail are the writer's opinion X-Disclaimer2: and may not be quoted, re-produced or forwarded X-Disclaimer3: (in part or whole) without the author's permission. Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com (8.9.1+3.0W/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA07396 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:25:58 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:25:58 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar X-Sender: khetan@link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com Reply-To: Khetan Gajjar To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: IDE drive dying Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi. I've got an IDE drive that has some hardware errors on it, but still appears to be working fine. I tried a bad144 -scv wd0, and that went through fine, but will that mark the sectors bad and not use them ? --- Khetan Gajjar (!kg1779) * khetan@iafrica.com ; khetan@os.org.za http://www.os.org.za/~khetan * Talk/Finger khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za UUNET Internet Africa Support * FreeBSD enthusiast-www2.za.freebsd.org FreeBSD: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message