From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 24 12:25:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0945437B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:25:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 23894 invoked by uid 0); 24 Jan 2001 20:25:33 -0000 Received: from p3ee2162c.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.226.22.44) by mail.gmx.net (mp009-rz3) with SMTP; 24 Jan 2001 20:25:33 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA30900 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:57:44 +0100 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:57:44 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard drive errors Message-ID: <20010124185744.K253@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20010123174558.A427@gecko.eric.net.au> <3A6D4A30.806FCCFD@quake.com.au> <20010123202310.A72951@cokane.yi.org> <030601c085a8$491e5b20$931576d8@inethouston.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <030601c085a8$491e5b20$931576d8@inethouston.net>; from dwcjr@inethouston.net on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 07:52:19PM -0600 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 19:52 -0600, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > Is freebsd any better at handling bad sectors/blocks than it > was around 2.2.8/3.0? Just curious, because I remember it not > handling them too good. I wouldn't think about it too long. Today's disks have their internal remapping without anyone outside noticing. Once you see errors outside (i.e. in your OS) internal capacity for recovery is *exhausted*. Your disk is damaged beyond acceptable limits once you start _noticing_ problems! Take these messages seriously and swap the device -- unless you don't care about the data ... virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message