From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 9 10:27:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA18554 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 10:27:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from codie04.ops.aol.com (codie04.ops.aol.com [152.163.8.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA18549 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 10:27:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ron@dc.infi.net) Message-Id: <199802091827.KAA18549@hub.freebsd.org> Received: from [152.163.101.11] by codie04.ops.aol.com with SMTP (1.38.193.5/16.2) id AA06397; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:26:47 -0500 X-Sender: ron@shellhost.dc.infi.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 13:28:14 -0500 To: Doug White , Jeff Black From: Ron Steele Subject: Re: Bad blocks on hard drive Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <34DE6188.39D@mail.nac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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