From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 7 03:10:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA12845 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 03:10:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com (link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA12772 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 03:10:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za) X-Disclaimer: Contents of this e-mail are the writer's opinion X-Disclaimer2: and may not be quoted, re-produced or forwarded X-Disclaimer3: (in part or whole) without the author's permission. Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com (8.9.1+3.0W/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA03739; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:40 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:40 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar X-Sender: khetan@link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com Reply-To: Khetan Gajjar To: Doug White cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE drive dying In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Doug White wrote: >If bad sectors are poking through I'd suggest buying a new disk anyway >since it'll only get worse. > The first thing I did was back everything up, but I'd prefer not to have to buy another 2 gig drive so soon after my last 4 gig. --- Khetan Gajjar (!kg1779) * khetan@iafrica.com ; khetan@os.org.za http://www.os.org.za/~khetan * Talk/Finger khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za UUNET Internet Africa Support * FreeBSD enthusiast-www2.za.freebsd.org FreeBSD: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message