From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 18 7:36:36 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 7328C37B404 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:36:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF3C43EB2 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:36:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA96319; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:36:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:36:35 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Hovey To: Dan Nelson Cc: Paulo Roberto , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: badblocks In-Reply-To: <20021218152555.GF90954@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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. > I thought this was also supposed to have been the case with IDE - Bakc when I ran SCO on an IDE the SCO utility saved me once. With SCSI, the adaptec and tekram bios verify utilies have done the same. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message