From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 31 15:25:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pine.pinetel.com (pine.pinetel.com [143.227.44.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D16AE37B718 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 15:25:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hweaver@pinetel.com) Received: from pinetel.com (ip37-cu2.pinetel.com [143.227.42.37]) by pine.pinetel.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA03201; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 15:25:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3AC66679.8262DB1B@pinetel.com> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 15:21:29 -0800 From: Hal Weaver X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slow, noisey hard drive activity References: <3AC3A738.B73B0404@pinetel.com> <00d401c0b897$a88f25e0$0204a8c0@dfgh> <003501c0b89b$786a06b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <3AC3FC42.9931CB96@pinetel.com> <003401c0b8ce$886e7d10$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <3AC4B87B.A2FCB938@pinetel.com> <027501c0b93f$1caea660$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > > > I don't know if FreeBSD has any native tools to check for such errors > and > > > mark them (a la DOS's scandisk), and since I'm guessing that these > drives > > > are ATA, you can't use the controllers' "scan media for defects" option > like > > > you can for SCSI drives. > > > > Matt, this sounds quite possible. This is an ATA drive. Do you have a > > hypothesis why the two Linux distribution that I installed on this > > partition didn't seem to be affected by a bad sector? > > Linux uses a different filesystem than FreeBSD. It's quite possible that > Linux stored information (whether filesystem metainformation or file data) > not on the bad sectors, whereas FreeBSD did -- solely by virtue of how the > filesystem is laid out. I used a partition check utility from another OS to find defects on my FreeBSD partition, but without any luck -- found nothing wrong. Of course, not being a native utility, there's a good probability it overlooked something. Hal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message