From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 22 2:43:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8D3537B516 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 02:42:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA01883; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:42:42 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:42:39 +1000 From: Jonathan Michaels To: David Kelly Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bad144 missing? Message-ID: <20000422194236.C1737@phoenix.welearn.com.au> Reply-To: jon@welearn.com.au Mail-Followup-To: David Kelly , stable@freebsd.org References: <200004211712.e3LHCTb26100@mail.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <200004211712.e3LHCTb26100@mail.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 12:12:29PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG david and all who sent me email, thank you for your responces and support, i apreciate your candor and assistance. one other thing, i have been offered a pair of adaptec aha-1542b scsi host adapters to plug into the isa bus of my i386dx33's, also i have been given a pair of i486dx33 with 16 mb dram. i will be able to use my 386's as tinybsd platforms (a router and one for backup) with the two i486dx33's as the 'servers'. i've also gotten a pair of pci scsi host adapters (an adaptec 2940uw and a buslogic bt940-fastwide-ultra) and parts of a pair of soon to be pentium pro based servers .. just gotta get some processors and dram. as a freind of mine said to me once 'see, jonathan, thier are still some good people in the freebsd world'. well i'd better sign off now .. finally a warm thank you to those who wernt frightend off by teh jonathan michaels byeline and wrote with constructive suggestions, as well as the offers of hardware. thier are some dozen or so disabled people (aprt from myself) who apreciate the assistance rendered. On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 12:12:29PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > > Accidentally, I've found out that /usr/sbin/bad144 in my fbsd 4.0 > > is dated by December, and there is no bad144 in /usr/src. > > So, has it disappeared? > > > > I have a HDD with bad blocks, how do I find all of them and mark them? > > I've done newfs, then fsck, fsck reports > > CANNOT READ: BLK 1114288 CONTINUE? [yn] > > several times. Apparently, fsck won't mark the blocks it can't read as bad, > > and therefore some data will be written there and then lost. > > Am I missing something? How could I achieve functionality > > that earlier was provided by bad144? > > Use badsect(8) to create files(s) containing the bad blocks. noted and diarised, with thanks. warm regards jonathan -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message