Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 21:16:09 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Gavin Atkinson" <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk>, "Seunghun T. Lee" <thomasl@san.rr.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Bad sectors Message-ID: <001c01c134f8$53538200$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0109031315380.83940-100000@ury.york.ac.uk>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Gavin Atkinson >Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 5:18 AM >To: Seunghun T. Lee >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Bad sectors > > > >On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Seunghun T. Lee wrote: > >> I've searched many documents but none state definitely how it has to be >> done. This is just an old IDE drive. > >Versions of FreeBSD in the 3.x versions had a utility called bad144 to do >this. This was removed later on because (IIRC) there was no way to support >both this and hard drives >2gig. > Not exactly. While bad144 wasn't compatible with drives over 1024 cylinders, the real reason is that nobody took the time to write support for it into the ata driver. Support still is in the wd driver. I'd assume that it's still possible to build a FreeBSD version of 4.3 that used wd and bad144 although in my opinion the work is going to be worse then just finding another old drive. Certainly some kind person on the list here has an old 1GB IDE disk in their junk pile that they would just give you. I used to load FreeBSD on a few old EDSI-based systems that I had which required bad144. It worked for me until FreeBSD version 3.4 came out I think, when they changed something in the wd driver that appeared to break bad144 support. (It could have just been an issue with my controller, though) If you really want to load FreeBSD on your system then find a copy of version 3.3 and install that, and during the DOS-partitioning select bad block scanning. Also make sure that the cylinder value in this screen is under 1024 Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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