From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 9 19:19:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA00830 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 19:19:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from marine.sonic.net (marine.sonic.net [208.201.224.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA00816 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 19:19:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lfloyd@sonic.net) Received: (qmail 1396 invoked from network); 10 May 1998 02:20:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sub.sonic.net) (208.201.224.8) by marine.sonic.net with SMTP; 10 May 1998 02:20:13 -0000 Received: from sonic.net (d146.pm11.sonic.net [208.201.230.146]) by sub.sonic.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA09092 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 19:19:31 -0700 X-envelope-info: Message-ID: <35550F8D.47C57ABE@sonic.net> Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 19:23:09 -0700 From: "L. Floyd" Reply-To: lfloyd@sonic.net Organization: MonkeyPuzzle Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Masking out bad blocks References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks! I'll look into that. It is a Western Digital 3.1 gbyte drive, still under warranty (I hope). I think I'll get a new drive, turn on the mapping on the new one, and start all over. Doug White wrote: > > 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