From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 1 8:18:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1189137B401 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 08:18:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7969943F3F for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 08:18:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51) with ESMTP id <2003020116180805100hrle1e>; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 16:18:08 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h11GI7EC030739 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 11:18:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h11GI73V030736; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 11:18:07 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple solutions for a problem (Re: How to map bad sectors on IDE?) References: <20030201023212.I51460-100000@voo.doo.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 01 Feb 2003 11:18:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20030201023212.I51460-100000@voo.doo.net> Message-ID: <44of5wq8jk.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marc Schneiders writes: > Your advise sounds perfectly sound for IBM and Microsoft and the > Pentagon. But for a home or small office situation, there might be > another way to deal with it? > > Especially since we are not talking about something 10 years old or > heavily used in a mailserver. The disk is *already* suffering from massive failure. You are more or less *guaranteed* that it's going to get worse, quickly. badsect(8) is still part of FreeBSD, but on disks less than (coincidentally) about 10 years old, it's pretty much useless, because sectors are going to continue going bad so quickly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message