Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 15:48:46 -0700 From: Joshua Lokken <joloxbox@attbi.com> To: Samuel Chow <cyschow@shaw.ca> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: installing BSD Message-ID: <JED8C7EC3WUROIWVDASRHFPJSQYW73SN.3d31ffce@joloxbox> In-Reply-To: <20020714094500.23f37ff3.cyschow@shaw.ca>
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> 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
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