From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 30 08:12:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA07425 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:12:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phoenix.its.rpi.edu (dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu [128.113.161.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA07419 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:12:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dec@localhost) by phoenix.its.rpi.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA18487; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:15:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:15:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "David E. Cross" To: Guido van Rooij cc: FreeBSD-hackers Subject: Re: bad sectors and sysinstall In-Reply-To: <199707292303.BAA10072@gvr.win.tue.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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