Date: 31 Jan 2003 19:43:11 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to map bad sectors on IDE? Message-ID: <44lm10g7a8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20030201005939.G51460-100000@voo.doo.net> References: <20030201005939.G51460-100000@voo.doo.net>
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Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org> writes: > I have searched Google to find a solution to mark off these two > blocks/inodes (or however I should call them), so that they will not > be used anymore. All I found is that this is not possible on > IDE. Advise: Throw away the disk. Now this I find a bit radical :-) > Esp. since the disk is about 3 years old. Why is it radical? After all, IDE disks already do bad-block remapping internally, so you've built up a *lot* of bad sectors already if they're starting to become visible to the operating system... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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