From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 24 23:47:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51A6037B401 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:47:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay2.skif.net (relay2.skif.net [195.58.224.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1EEF43E65 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:47:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from admin@dru.dn.ua) Received: from dru.dn.ua (dru.dn.ua [195.5.21.149]) by relay2.skif.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g9P6lJ4O069678 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:47:21 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from admin@localhost) by dru.dn.ua (8.12.3/8.12.3) id g9P6l14r051811; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:47:01 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from admin) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:47:01 +0300 From: "Vladislav V. Zhuk" To: "D. G. Lawrence" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck lasting several hours (and then forever) after crash Message-ID: <20021025064701.GA51165@dru.dn.ua> References: <3DB8228B.90203@vpop.net> <20021024201833.GA259@Deadcell.ant> <20021025044650.GA46167@dru.dn.ua> <20021025060420.GV49215@nexus.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021025060420.GV49215@nexus.root.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:04:21PM -0700, D. G. Lawrence wrote: > >> Now that is a good idear! Thanks. I dropped to single user mode and did > >> dd if=/dev/ad4s1h of=/dev/null bs=64k. It appears that fsck is not the problem > >> but my disk is going bad. > > > >Every harddisk will be bad one day. fsck MUST be able to mark bad blocks > >and recover residuary data on the disk. Or freebsd must have another tool > >for recover data from harddisk with bad blocks. > >Why under other OS it's a no problem?? (one week ago I recover FreeBSD data > >under M$ DOS. FreeBSD can't do anything with partition with bad blocks, > >fsck even can't finish check). > >Why other OS has tools for test surface HDD ?? > > > >I like FreeBSD, but this OS absolutely don't ready for problem with disks, > >that will come soon or late with every HDD !! > > > >(I know about backup, RAID and other. I troubled by problem discovered > >above). > > > >Sorry for my english. > > It's apparantly a problem with the ATA driver, and not a problem with > fsck. fsck actually does deal with bad blocks and can normally get past > them if they are reported properly by the driver. I agree with you. But problem need to be resolved. -- Vladislav V. Zhuk (06267)3-60-03 admin@dru.dn.ua 2:465/197@FidoNet.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message