From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 11 12:35:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA22227 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:35:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22218 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:35:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djv@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from djv@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18994; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:58:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from djv) Message-Id: <199808111858.OAA18994@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: couldn't set disk in "badscan" mode: Inappropriate ioctl for device In-Reply-To: <35D088AC.1FB450CF@turkey.ispro.net.tr> from Evren Yurtesen at "Aug 11, 98 09:08:44 pm" To: yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr (Evren Yurtesen) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:58:00 -0400 (EDT) Cc: djv@bedford.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: djv@bedford.net From: djv@bedford.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Evren Yurtesen wrote > well, I am able to use bad144 on my ide drive at home... Interesting. > but here at home I have another problem with it... > it just supports 126 bad sectors per slide and my hard drive > has a lot more than 126 : ) > Sure sounds like the drive is in trouble. If the bad sectors are grouped closely, you can re-do the slices or BSD partitions so that the bad sectors are not part of any file system. Other than that, I think it might be time to go to the store. :( Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message