From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 22 09:40:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA18803 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:40:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA18795 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:40:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from Celeris (56k-port4038.ime.net [209.90.195.48]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.1/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id MAA03719; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:39:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.0.67.19981022123645.0097d1e0@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1.0.67 (Beta) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:38:35 -0400 To: kyle , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: bad sectors In-Reply-To: <362EC58B.8137D73@pchost.com> References: <19981021233700.3420.rocketmail@send104.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hmm.. normally you can find them by watching the dmesg output/messages output.. I had a drive full of them (I hate Western Digital 1.2gig's because of it), and by seeing where they were, I went and reinstalled FreeBSD, but resized the drive around it (luckily I only lost maybe 10mb). At the same time you should think to yourself "Perhaps this drive is going bad, and maybe I shouldn't rely on it for anything" :-) At 03:41 PM 10/22/98 +1000, kyle wrote: >Hi, > >I have some bad sectors on my hard drive and need to find out where they >are. >Is anyone able to inform me to where I am able to get this information >and how I can get it. > >kyle buttress > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange 207-942-0275 http://www.droo.orland.me.us My Latest Kernel: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (ONEEX) #14: Mon Oct 19 22:36:58 EDT 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message