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Date:      Sun, 24 May 1998 16:00:21 -0400
From:      "Larry S. Marso" <larry@marso.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Should I bad block scan?
Message-ID:  <19980524160021.C257@marso.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980524015703.9705G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Sun, May 24, 1998 at 01:58:16AM -0700
References:  <19980522161743.C1071@marso.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980524015703.9705G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 01:58:16AM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> On Fri, 22 May 1998, Larry S. Marso wrote:
> 
> For a while it was broken for disks >2GB.  In addition bad block checks
> should NOT be necessary since all modern disks do sector remapping.  

By modern, do you mean SCSI only?  I'm having this problem on my laptop.

>If
> you have bad sectors showing then you need to run a verify on the disk and
> make sure sector remapping is enabled.

Can you refer me to instructions?

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