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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Francis Vidal <francis@cody.usls.edu>
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Subject: Re: very long bad-block scan
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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