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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:17:21 -0800 (PST)
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From: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Subject: Re: harddrive woes (!)
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On 23-Mar-99 Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Monday, 22 March 1999 at 22:34:37 -0800, Chris Piazza wrote:
> 
> This is telling you that the sector you're looking for on the disk
> simply isn't there.  This isn't FreeBSD, it's the drive itself.
> 
>> It seems to me like FreeBSD spammed my harddrive with something, but
>> what I don't understand is why other OS' do not even think twice
>> about it.
> 
> There are two possibilities here:
> 
> 1.  The other OSs don't try to access this sector.
> 2.  They ignore the error.

My problem with this is I can't even write 100k on to this partition (about 3.3
gigs, at the end of the drive) in FreeBSD, yet I've filled the drive in both
Linux and FreeBSD =/.

> 
> Hopefully (1) is the correct answer :-)
> 
>> Is there any way to wipe this part of the drive "totally" clean?
> 
> Some format utilities can do this for you.  Unfortunately FreeBSD
> doesn't supply anything to format IDE drives.  Does your BIOS have
> something?
> 

It has the 'low level format', of course ;).  And this error has survived
through that.


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