Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:53:27 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: harddrive woes (!) Message-ID: <19990324085327.F425@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990322231721.cpiazza@home.net>; from Chris Piazza on Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 11:17:21PM -0800 References: <19990323174001.K442@lemis.com> <XFMail.990322231721.cpiazza@home.net>
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On Monday, 22 March 1999 at 23:17:21 -0800, Chris Piazza wrote: > On 23-Mar-99 Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 22 March 1999 at 22:34:37 -0800, Chris Piazza wrote: >> >> This is telling you that the sector you're looking for on the disk >> simply isn't there. This isn't FreeBSD, it's the drive itself. >> >>> It seems to me like FreeBSD spammed my harddrive with something, but >>> what I don't understand is why other OS' do not even think twice >>> about it. >> >> There are two possibilities here: >> >> 1. The other OSs don't try to access this sector. >> 2. They ignore the error. > > My problem with this is I can't even write 100k on to this partition (about 3.3 > gigs, at the end of the drive) in FreeBSD, yet I've filled the drive in both > Linux and FreeBSD =/. Filling the drive doesn't mean you have written every sector. >> Hopefully (1) is the correct answer :-) >> >>> Is there any way to wipe this part of the drive "totally" clean? >> >> Some format utilities can do this for you. Unfortunately FreeBSD >> doesn't supply anything to format IDE drives. Does your BIOS have >> something? >> > > It has the 'low level format', of course ;). And this error has survived > through that. It's not much of a low level format if it doesn't detect unrecoverable defects. There's a program called bad144 which we used to use for MFM drives; you might like to investigate whether it can help you. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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