From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 29 6: 6:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts1-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts1.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DCA237B82F for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 06:06:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danflemming@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([216.209.107.158]) by tomts1-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000729130635.ZKKT8304.tomts1-srv.bellnexxia.net@mac.com>; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 09:06:35 -0400 Message-ID: <3982D6E8.C67E7B88@mac.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 09:06:48 -0400 From: Dan Flemming X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Gorham Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-Install / Bad HD? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James Gorham wrote: > > 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 How big is the HD? > 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? I think you're right, it does mean a bad sector. As far as I know, FreeBSD will _not_ install to a drive with bad sectors. One possible solution might be to go to DOS, create a large number of partitions (say, 10MB each), run SCANDISK on each of them, and then delete each partition which has no bad sectors. Then, install BSD in the empty space, leaving the bad sector partitions in DOS. This is a nasty kludge though. :) > Please respond if you have any ideas, like many, I need to get this > machine up and running ASAP. A better solution, of course: Buy a new HD. Samsung sucks for reliability. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message