From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 2 22:52:50 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 384D937B401 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 22:52:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29FF043E4A for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 22:52:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18faTH-0004iE-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 06:52:47 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id A42D11A1D for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 07:52:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id 56F221983 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 07:52:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id 6F630225D9; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 07:52:35 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 07:52:35 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to map bad sectors on IDE? Message-ID: <20030203065235.GB3213@raggedclown.net> References: <44k7gkq8h0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20030203003720.Q62584-100000@voo.doo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030203003720.Q62584-100000@voo.doo.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:59:50AM +0100, Marc Schneiders wrote: > On 1 Feb 2003, at 11:19 [=GMT-0500], Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > John Mills writes: > > > > > out of circulation. 'apropos badblocks' and 'man fsck' failed to suggest > > > such a function in fBSD, but it might be worth more looking. > > > > badsect(8) > > I tried that with the bad sector numbers (with both ranges > mentioned in the messages, since I wasn't sure which are the > true ones): > As a last desperate measure, and if everything is backed up somewhere you could use the manafacturer's test disk to do a low level format -- may or may not help, but sounds like you do not have a lot to lose ! -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message