From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 13:08:25 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA01142 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 13:08:25 -0700 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA01130 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 13:08:22 -0700 Received: from penzance.econ.yale.edu (penzance.econ.yale.edu [130.132.32.100]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id MAA04428 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 12:39:59 -0700 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 15:41:19 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- To: Michael Smith cc: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Hardware problems In-Reply-To: <199508030928.SAA02963@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 3 Aug 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > -Vince- stands accused of saying: > > > You have a bad sector on your disk. Read the bad144 manual page for > > > one means of dealing with it, and the badsect manual page for another. > > > > Really? I never knew IDE Hard drives especially the new models > > have bad sectors on it... Hopefully the manual pages is self explanatary.. > > Thanks anyways! > > All disks have bad sectors; it's just that some deal with them better than > others. In your case, simply writing to the sector may be enough to > convince the drive to reallocate it, certainly few drives would > automatically reallocate on reads by default. I read the man pages but how do I use bad144 and badsect exactly? Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free!