From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 1 20:52:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA11408 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 20:52:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoom.bga.com (root@zoom.realtime.net [205.238.128.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA11390 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 20:51:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from barnowl (apm1-87.realtime.net [205.238.146.87]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA17942 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:51:41 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:55:34 -0500 (CDT) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl To: questions freebsd Subject: soft read errors (oh noooo..) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings, I'm limping along with soft read errors on the /usr and /var file systems. It started with the same numbers and has since included new ones. The drive is an 850MB, two years old, IDE (I know, I know...). Does FreeBSD map bad blocks on configuration/installation? I don't remember. One other question I'm nervous about, do those power center thingys under the monitor do bad things even if the disks are all sync'ed on normal shutdown? (Those flat boxes with slight surge protection and a switch for each device) I have all of my data on another drive (backed up, of course) and don't want to excercise things much till I decide if trashing the disk is necessary. What are the alternatives? Please cc me directly, as I'm not on the list while this is going on. Thanks for your support! John