From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 10 13:23:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA05761 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:23:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05102 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:19:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA09344; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 22:18:49 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA04681; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 22:18:48 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id VAA00794; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 21:20:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604101920.VAA00794@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: hard reading error To: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Chang) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 21:20:30 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Richard Chang" at Apr 9, 96 03:17:20 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Richard Chang wrote: > Hmmm, I don't have a backup... Otherwise I would just copy the HD > to another HD and just reinstall FreeBSD then copy the stuff from the > backup drive... Of course, this *won't* repair your disk. It would still experience the bad sectors. Reformat it (hardware reformat) before reinstalling FreeBSD on it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)