From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 18:17:56 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA15570 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 18:17:56 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA15544 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 18:17:44 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA13006; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 11:16:54 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510110146.LAA13006@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: bad144 -- how to get a list of bad sectors > 126 To: rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert N Watson) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 11:16:54 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Robert N Watson" at Oct 10, 95 05:50:29 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1828 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Robert N Watson stands accused of saying: > > speaking of bad144 -- is there any way to get a list of sectors above > the 126 limit? bad144 aborts after the first 126 without (apparently) > writing the list, and won't tell me about any of the sectors over that > limit, and badsect seems to require the list to be extracted from the > disk in order to run. My vendor is reluctant to replace my drive while > I'm running FreeBSD because it is not a supported OS, so I'd rather just > sacrifice 48k of my HD or something and have a working system than dump > FreeBSD (I'll get a new drive at some point to add to the current setup, > and will replace the old one then.) Any help would be appreciated > (reslicing isn't really an option at this point, as I'm running a pop > mail server for a large numnber of people, a web site, and a name > server.) First : if your drive has more than 126 bad sectors as supplied, you should be throwing it through your vendor's window, not politely asking for a replacement. If the drive is halfway decent, it probably also has bad sector forwarding, so you may have several hundred more bad sectors than you think. A drive with more than a few bad sectors is probably on the way out anyway, so I wouldn't be trusting it to begin with. If you _must_ use this drive, look at badsect(8) and see if you can pull things off with that. > Robert Watson (rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu) * Double major: IDS/CS * H&SS -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[