From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 21 05:44:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF7B616A4DA for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:44:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx24.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4152243D5A for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:44:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 2399 invoked by uid 399); 21 Aug 2006 05:44:15 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Aug 2006 05:44:15 -0000 Message-ID: <44E9482B.5030603@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:44:11 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060729) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman References: <20060820205518.4C78E45042@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20060820205518.4C78E45042@ptavv.es.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Daniel Eriksson Subject: Re: Avoiding bad sectors? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:44:16 -0000 Kevin Oberman wrote: > There have been some excellent suggestions in this thread, but one simple > detail looks like it's been over-looked. > > If the disk has marked the sector as bad, which it should have, and it > there are redirection sectors available. a reboot is all that is > required. Not so much overlooked as ignored, methinks. :) If we wanted to reboot all the time, we would run windows. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection