From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 15 12:03:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA05661 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:03:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line15.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA05652 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:03:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA00608; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:03:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:03:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: PandT Johnson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad144 usage In-Reply-To: <34946796.313@earthlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, PandT Johnson wrote: > (Second e-mail on the topic; didn't get any response to the > first e-mail plea for help. Ended up grepping all over the > place for bad144 information and reading kernel source code. > Found useful fragments of information in the FreeBSD installation > documentation in /stand/help, a few comments in the handbook, > some apparently out of date information in the bad144 man page, > and a few comments in sections 5 and 8.) > > I have a Compaq Armada 1125 laptop computer, and have had mostly > good luck with it. I've been using it for almost a year with > almost no problems. I was using FreeBSD 2.2.1, and have just > upgraded to FreeBSD 2.2.5. > > One problem I have had is hard drive bad sectors. I have now > had two sectors go bad on the IDE hard drive on my system. > You should really replace the disk if it's showing bad sectors. That means the disk's internal table is already full. It'll just get worse. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major