Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:36:35 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Paulo Roberto <nirv199@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: badblocks Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10212181035410.25729-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <20021218152555.GF90954@dan.emsphone.com>
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> 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
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