From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 29 3: 6:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c000.sfo.cp.net (c004-h011.c004.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EBAD337BBCC for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 03:06:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgor@veldt.com) Received: (cpmta 19468 invoked from network); 29 Jul 2000 03:06:28 -0700 Received: from unknown (HELO ?216.128.57.99?) (216.128.57.99) by smtp.firstworld.net (209.228.33.75) with SMTP; 29 Jul 2000 03:06:28 -0700 X-Sent: 29 Jul 2000 10:06:28 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jgor@chico.lightsidegroup.com Message-Id: Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 04:05:56 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: James Gorham Subject: 4.0-Install / Bad HD? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, I've been trying to install 4.0-Release via CD Rom onto a pentium 166/32 MB with a Samsung IDE hard drive. The installation would go fine for awhile, and towards the 'src' installations (installing the developer release) it begins to drop significantly in it's transfer rate. I blamed it on a number of things and swapped CD Roms, fussed with cabling, etc. etc. Finally, I changed the tty2 session to watch the files being copied, and when the transfer rate would slow down, I'd get an error along the lines of: ad0 Hard Read Error blk#4414127 Status=59 Error=40 I'm assuming this means there's a bad sector or such on the hard drive. Is there anyway for the installer to detect this and mark it as unusable, or any workaround at all? Please respond if you have any ideas, like many, I need to get this machine up and running ASAP. Ciao, James gorham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message