Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 13:28:14 -0500 From: Ron Steele <ron@dc.infi.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Jeff Black <jeff42@tempest.nac.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad blocks on hard drive Message-ID: <199802091827.KAA18549@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980209000951.24904h-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> References: <34DE6188.39D@mail.nac.net>
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I have a Maxtor that was so bad it was unusable. I called their 800 number thinking I would get a new drive under warrenty. To my suprise, they pointed me their web site to down load a low-level format program. To my even further suprise, this fixed the problem. The drive have been working fine for about 10 months now. At any rate, it's work a call to the manufacturer before you trash the drive. Ron Steele >On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Jeff Black wrote: > >> How can I find out if the IDE hard drive has bad blocks. What program >> and parameters do I need to use. > >Normally, IDE hard drive automatically map away bad sectors. If you start >running into `hard errors', then that bad sector list is full and the disk >is probably junk. > >Doug White | University of Oregon >Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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