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Date:      Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:19:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Francis Vidal <francis@cody.usls.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: very long bad-block scan
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970927001933.15854X-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970924153931.1073A-100000@cody.usls.edu>

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On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Francis Vidal wrote:

> i have a bigfoot 1.2 gig ide hd which i wanted to install the FreeBSD
> 2.2.2 release -- but the bad-block scan is sooooooo long. how long does it
> usually take?

A while.

It really shouldn't be necessary to run it on your disk, but the Bigfoots
do have a bad rap.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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