Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 14:25:36 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Hardware problems Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950806142355.8170B-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508040006.JAA04238@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Fri, 4 Aug 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > -Vince- stands accused of saying: > > > > > You have a bad sector on your disk. Read the bad144 manual page for > > > > > one means of dealing with it, and the badsect manual page for another. > > > > > > > > Really? I never knew IDE Hard drives especially the new models > > > > have bad sectors on it... Hopefully the manual pages is self explanatary.. > > > > Thanks anyways! > > > > > > All disks have bad sectors; it's just that some deal with them better than > > > others. In your case, simply writing to the sector may be enough to > > > convince the drive to reallocate it, certainly few drives would > > > automatically reallocate on reads by default. > > > > I read the man pages but how do I use bad144 and badsect exactly? > > Well, firstly, make a backup. Then, in single-user mode (for paranoia's > sake) say : > > # bad144 -s -v /dev/rwd0s1c (or whichever slice you're unsing). > Tried that before I mailed you and it didn't work, sad bad super slice record or something. > (If you read the manual page, you will know that this scans the entire > disk for bad sectors) Yep... > If you can't follow the badsect manual page then I feel really sorry for > you, it's the nicest piece of handholding I've ever seen in a sysadmin > manual page. I can't vouch for the command _working_ of course 8) I can follow the manpage but it's that the command just isn't working at all 8( Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free! Chabot Observatory & Science Center
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