From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Mar 18 23:15:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA05848 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 23:15:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from snitterly.nanoteq.co.za (snitterly.nanoteq.co.za [196.37.90.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA05842 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 23:15:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jk@nanoteq.com) Received: from knersus.nanoteq.co.za (knersus.nanoteq.co.za [196.37.91.20]) by snitterly.nanoteq.co.za (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id JAA22805 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:18:28 GMT Received: from NANOTEQ-1/SpoolDir by knersus.nanoteq.co.za (Mercury 1.21); 19 Mar 98 09:21:01 (SAST) Received: from SpoolDir by NANOTEQ-1 (Mercury 1.30); 19 Mar 98 09:20:08 (SAST) Received: from pc-jk.Nanoteq.co.za by knersus.nanoteq.co.za (Mercury 1.30) with ESMTP; 19 Mar 98 09:20:07 (SAST) Message-ID: <3510C62B.1D4D52E2@nanoteq.com> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:15:55 +0200 From: Johan Kruger X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: (no subject) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am using Western Digital hard disk drives (IDE) with FreeBSD when I install network servers for customers, but after about a year ( 9 months ) the Hard Disks start getting bad sectors, and start to fail. Some of the customers asked for Windows NT 4 and just one of these systems returned with a bad hard disk ( Western D ). Do you know if there is a specific problem in FreeBSD with the addressing of these particular hard drives ? If not, do you have any suggestions please. Thank you in advance. e-mail: jk@nanoteq.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message