Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:13:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Haobo Yu <haoboy@isi.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, faber@isi.edu Subject: Re: bad blocks on hard disk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980322201222.12360N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980318133835.367D-100000@hoe.isi.edu>
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On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Haobo Yu wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a PC. It worked great until last week. A > power failure left many bad blocks on my hard disk (Seagate ST36450, IDE), > both in my swap partition and my home partition. I looked through the > handbook and FAQ and man pages, bad144 and badsect are the only thing I > could find. Yuck. :( If a power outage fried your hard drive you're probably better off replacing it before it goes totally. IDE drives will automatically remap bad sectors; if they run out of remap sectors then it's about time to cycle the drive out. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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