Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 19:23:40 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Marco <ilikefbsd@web.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: badblocks on sata drive Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903011922030.43128@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <49AAD148.3040805@web.de> References: <49AAD148.3040805@web.de>
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> > during dd tests i encounter hardware problems with my harddisk. is there > a way to mark parts of the hdd as "bad" so those are not used anymore? not much. you may label it the way it will skip that part. anyway - sata/IDE drives has in-hardware bad block remapping. if you see bad blocks there is already out of space for remapping. OR - just something was recorded badly some time ago. clear whole drive with zeros and then retest. there is high change problem will go out. if not - don't use that drive for anything valuable at all
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