Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 11:18:11 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: mdean <mdean@best.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bad144 Message-ID: <199709280148.LAA03271@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Sep 1997 17:42:40 MST." <Pine.SGI.3.95.970927174013.28472A-100000@shellx.best.com>
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> > I've looked through the freebsd mail archive about this but can't find any > reported bugs. Should bad144 fail on 4.0 gig ide drives or what? It is I'm fairly sure that bad144 suffers on extents larger than 2GB, although I haven't actually tried it to see. > digital) and it can't find any bad sectors---- should I ignore bad144 or is > this a sign that it may be broken once I install --- my bios fully supports > drives of this size (it is a fairly new ppro) There's little point in using it unless you're sure your disk doesn't do bad sector forwarding. mike
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