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Date:      Tue, 8 Jun 1999 15:13:18 -0700 
From:      Woody Carey <carey@roguewave.com>
To:        "'Todd Hansen'" <tshansen@oceana.nlanr.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: bad block scans
Message-ID:  <EB55BCC162CAD111BD0A00A0C9979E3201944D3F@cvo1.cvo.roguewave.com>

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Someone please correct me if I am way off base here, but this sounds
like
flaky hardware, not necessarily the disk itself.  

Why would bad disk blocks cause a crash?

> 
> is there anyway to scan a disk for new bad blocks without 
> destroying the
> data already on the disk? We are looking into this because we 
> are getting
> a problem where our server will randomly just die and reboot 
> while doing
> some disk work but it doesn't put any errors on the screen or in the
> kernel logs. :(
> Thanks.
> Todd Hansen
> NLANR


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