From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Nov 20 17:28:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA28511 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:28:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from bob.tri-lakes.net ([207.3.81.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA28506 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:28:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdillon@tri-lakes.net) Received: from [207.3.81.154] by bob.tri-lakes.net (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id fa348821 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:57:03 -0600 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:53:19 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: Charles Mott Subject: Re: large IDE disks Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 20-Nov-97 Charles Mott wrote: >> The drives should remap bad sectors by themselves, if that fails it has >> no more spares, and are now "junk drives" (those some of the more >> "ingenious" dealers try to sell anyways)... Use your 3 year warranty >> to get it replaced ASAP. > >Are the bad sectors determined at the time of manufactruing or does the >drive somehow automatically do this when it is reformatted? > >Mainly, I am wondering whether the drives can automatically deal with new >bad sectors as they appear. ALL IDE drives are capable of being re-low-level-formatted and having their bad sectors and spares remapped. Western Digital gives these utilities to the public (available on their FTP site), as does Maxtor, I think (at least I got ahold of them.. not sure if Maxtor wanted them released or not). I have NOT found these utilities for Quantum or Fujitsu drives. Conner drives actually require a small bit of hardware to do the reformatting (its rather inexpensive, luckily, and doesn't require any software.. it can be done outside of a box). --- Chris Dillon --- cdillon@tri-lakes.net --- Powered by FreeBSD, the best operating system on the planet. ---- (http://www.freebsd.org)