From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 9 9:17:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (ppp-244.nav.kiev.ua [213.169.65.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A8D737BE20 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 09:05:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from never@localhost) by mile.nevermind.kiev.ua (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1952Uv11484 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 07:02:30 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from never) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 07:01:09 +0200 From: Nevermind To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bad block search/marking as unusable [need an advice]... Message-ID: <20010209070108.A11138@nevermind.kiev.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Please, when answering, Cc: me, because I'm not subscribed to -questions] Dear Sirs, I would like to know if there is way to scan hard drive for bad blocks and mark them as unsable on live system. I mean I have no ability to reinstall from scratch, so using BIOS's low level format is not avaliable (I have very poor internet connection speed (14400 bit/sec, have no floppy drive, have no cd-rom drive and so on). The point is that my HD is very old and small: ad0: 519MB [1055/16/63] at ata0-master WDMA2 and it has a lot of bad blocks. I need them to be not usable by filesystem so that I'm not loosing my data. Thanx for your answers. I really need and appreciate them. -- NEVE-RIPE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message