Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 13:55:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert N Watson) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bad144 on a 1gig IDE drive Message-ID: <199510112055.NAA03154@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <YkSh7ta00YUz0WjUU=@andrew.cmu.edu> from "Robert N Watson" at Oct 10, 95 04:05:13 pm
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> Yes, it's me, the one with numerous NIS, wd1, etc, problems. Well,
> those are all fixed ;). However, now I have to deal with a set of bad
> blocks that inopportunely turned up in my /var partition. It's going to
> be one of those days, I think (so far in the last two days: failed to
> install a 540 meg IDE drive for about 18+ housr). I have set several
> bad144 sessions going over the past 8 hours, trying to get some
> combination and setup that is happy, and have had a variety of problems,
> but so far been unable to mark any bad blocks with it. It scans fine,
> and finds them, they just don't get marked because bad144 aborts each
> time. This time it got..
>
> ...
> Block: 271516 will be marked BAD.
> Block: 271517 will be marked BAD.
> Block: 271518 will be marked BAD.
> Too many bad sectors, can only handle 126 per slice.
^^^^^^^^^^
> fledge>
divide your disk into two slices.. :)
>
> Which seems logical, only leaving the question what to do about it. It
> also failed with a variety of sn# errors earlier, but that seems to have
> stopped for now. As far as I know, badsect is the other bad sector
> handling program -- does anyopne have any particular advice as to how to
> pull all the information together and block off the sectors from general
> use? I assume some script combining bad144 to get the bad block
> numbers, and then badsect to create a file over them, but I honestly
> don't know, as I haven't dealt with this problem before. Is there any
> way to turn up the number of sectors handled by bad144, or a premade
> script someone has lying around to block out such sectors?
>
> Thanks..
>
> Robert
> ----
> Robert Watson (rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu) * Double major: IDS/CS * H&SS
> http://www.watson.org/ robert@fledge.watson.org
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