From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 18 7:26: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4297A37B404 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:26:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3403F43EC2 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:26:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id gBIFPtnX063696; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:25:55 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:25:55 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Stephen Hovey Cc: Paulo Roberto , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: badblocks Message-ID: <20021218152555.GF90954@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20021218114049.90442.qmail@web14908.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Dec 18), Stephen Hovey said: > I'd like to know myself if there is something for IDE drives. Its > the thing keeping me from using IDE All modern IDE drives do bad-block remapping just like SCSI drives, and if you start getting write errors passed up to you, then the drive has already used up all its spares and will likely fail completely soon. As for floppies, fdformat does a verify pass and will tell you if it couldn't format a track. If you install the mtools port, the "mbadblocks" command will scan an already-formatted floppy and mark unreadable areas as used in the FAT. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message