Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:15:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> To: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl> Cc: FreeBSD-hackers <FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: bad sectors and sysinstall Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970730111401.18449A-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <199707292303.BAA10072@gvr.win.tue.nl>
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On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Guido van Rooij wrote: > I've got an IDE drive with bad sectors I still want to use. > I think bad144 is the thing to use, however sysinstall does not > seem to be able to specify it. Am I missing something? > Further; are there any caveats I should know? > When you are partitioning the drive ( _not_ labeling it ), select each partition that you want to scan for bad blocks and hit 'b'. That will have bad144 run on those partitions automatically. -- David Cross
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