From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 26 9:12:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 975FB15286 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 09:11:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA09918; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 09:10:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199909261610.JAA09918@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Boot problems with new -current In-Reply-To: <199909261018.MAA65917@freebsd.dk> from Soren Schmidt at "Sep 26, 1999 12:18:17 pm" To: sos@freebsd.dk (Soren Schmidt) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 09:10:46 -0700 (PDT) Cc: cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz (Cejka Rudolf), current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > It seems Cejka Rudolf wrote: > > I think internal bad block remapping is long time here. But > > in the middle of 1996 I have bought a new Western Digital disk > > with some bad sectors and it runs without any problems till today > > (and without any new bad sectors - I have tried new disk format > > some time ago). Does this mean that I should in such cases make > > a complaint in a store if I want to use new ATA driver? > > Hmm, a modern ATA disk should have NO defects, if it has it is > to be replaced immediately under warranty, if they refuse, > dont buy anything from that vendor again :) This happens to also be a Wester Digital drive, so I would first go down load they latest version of ``wddiag.exe'' and run it. It will make attempts to recover the data on the bad sectors, and remap them. Once it is done it will give you an ``final code''. Given the other facts stated above, like the drive has grown no errors in years, wddiag will probably just remap a couple of sectors for you and your drive will be ``defect free'' again and you can forget all about bad144. Depending on the value of the final code you can file a warranty claim on line via the www, though presently it is taking about 2 to 4 weeks for them to get your drive back. Also, since you stated the drive is from the middle of 1996 your 3 year warranty may be over :-(. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message