Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:15:46 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with 3.4-STABLE custom kernel Message-ID: <200001172316.PAA09368@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:50:55 CST." <XFMail.000117125055.conrads@home.com>
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In message <XFMail.000117125055.conrads@home.com>, Conrad Sabatier
writes:
>
> On 17-Jan-00 Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > At 12:46 PM 1/17/00 -0600, Conrad Sabatier wrote:
> >>
> >>On 17-Jan-00 Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On first glance, it would seem you have come across a bad sector
> >>> on
> >>> your hard drive.
> >>
> >>So why then wouldn't booting into kernel.old detect the same
> >>problem?
> >
> > Perhaps because something is trying to read from a bad sector.
>
> So, what would be the fix for this? fsck?
Some drives (mostly SCSI) will remap the bad sectors automatically.
Some drive manufacturers provide a utility that can be run from DOS
that will remap bad sectors.
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Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766
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