Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:31:18 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gr=FCnewald_Micha=EBl?= <michaelgrunewald@yahoo.fr> To: freebsd questions general <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Bad sectors: how bad can it be Message-ID: <FAF67E79-922C-4F54-8BE1-2C3ED88FD3CD@yahoo.fr>
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Dear list,
after an incorrect power-off of my FreeBSD system, it does not boot
any more, BTX stops even before showing the cute beastie menu.
Starting the machine by other means, I found that the hard-drive is
installed on has bad sectors. I am looking for advices on how to
recover from this, if possible.
Basically the question is: shall I discard my hard-drive with bad-
sectors, or can I continue using it?
The Linux system I use to diagnose this says:
hdb: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
hdb: media error (bad sector): error=0x30 { LastFailedSense=0x03 }
...
Buffer I/O error on device hdb, logical block 1663200
etc.
Since I use computers (1992) these are my first bad sectors :) (on
hard drives, taking floppies into account is no fun!). I hence have
several questions:
-- is it possible to let these sectors?
-- to which extents a hard-drive with bad sectors is usable?
-- while the apparition of these bad sectors coincide with an
incorrect power-off, are the two events related? The machine suffered
plenty improper power-offs (or many), in the last years and did not
react so badly!
--
Thank you in advance for your advices,
Michaël
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