From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 9 12:50:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18830 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 12:50:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18816 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 12:50:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA03173; Sat, 9 May 1998 12:50:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 12:50:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "L. Floyd" cc: Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Masking out bad blocks In-Reply-To: <3553CAA0.ADB30085@sonic.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 8 May 1998, L. Floyd wrote: > Is there an equivalent method for mapping bad blocks on an EIDE drive? > I have an EIDE disk that I'm about ready to get rid of due to a > multitude of i/o problems related to it. Yes, usually it's enabled by default, however some Western digital disks don't have it set. You can get a utility from them to turn it on. > > If bad blocks are poking through it's only going to get worse. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message