From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 14 15:48:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F49137B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 15:48:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16CA043E3B for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 15:48:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joloxbox@attbi.com) Received: from joloxbox ([12.225.249.250]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020714224845.FLYH29588.sccrmhc01.attbi.com@joloxbox>; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 22:48:45 +0000 From: Joshua Lokken To: Samuel Chow Cc: FreeBSD Questions Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 15:48:46 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <20020714094500.23f37ff3.cyschow@shaw.ca> Message-Id: Subject: Re: installing BSD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: Opera 6.03 build 1107 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The 'hard error' pretty much indicates a bad disk. > Since the bad track (tn = 13) is at the beginning of > the disk, you might want to try to create a small FAT > slice to skip the bad track. > > If I were you, I would go buy and replace this dying > disk. > >--- >Samuel Chow >cyschow@shaw.ca > In regards to your answer to this persons question, if I have a drive that I know has some bad blocks, first, if I map the drive to skip these blocks, how reliable is said drive, and second, how would I go about mapping the bad blocks with FreeBSD (which utility)? Thanks in advance for any help you can give. -- Best Regards, Joshua Lokken OMIC Portland Branch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message