From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 24 01:58:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA16081 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 May 1998 01:58:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA16073 for ; Sun, 24 May 1998 01:58:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA09757; Sun, 24 May 1998 01:58:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 01:58:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Larry S. Marso" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should I bad block scan? In-Reply-To: <19980522161743.C1071@marso.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 22 May 1998, Larry S. Marso wrote: > Is it *always* a good idea to bad block scan new disk partitions as a > matter of practice, when initially creating freebsd partitions? Or does > this introduce an element of uncertainty/instability? For a while it was broken for disks >2GB. In addition bad block checks should NOT be necessary since all modern disks do sector remapping. If you have bad sectors showing then you need to run a verify on the disk and make sure sector remapping is enabled. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message