Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 15:20:25 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: mmead@goof.com (matthew c. mead) Subject: Re: need disk error help! Message-ID: <19970508152025.JI60707@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199705061858.OAA11402@goof.com>; from matthew c. mead on May 6, 1997 14:58:42 -0400 References: <199705061858.OAA11402@goof.com>
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As matthew c. mead wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to resolve a problem on a machine which is > having what appears to be drive errors. Can someone help me > interpret this message and figure out what to do to mark this > part of the disk as unusable or some other measure? Thanks! Your best bet (short of using SCSI drives where error recovery and formatting are standardized :) is to kick the drive's vendor for a formatting utility. I mean real low-level format (at the IDE level). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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