Date: 27 Oct 2001 10:39:47 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk Docter Like? Message-ID: <44lmhxb0zw.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: roddierod@hotpop.com's message of "Fri, 26 Oct 2001 23:23:20 %2B0000 (UTC)" References: <20011026191543.41dbe046.roddierod@hotpop.com>
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roddierod@hotpop.com (Rod Person) writes: > I have a harddrive that is starting to die on me. There are some bad sectors in the fat. I hardware friend of mine tells me that norton disk doctor will fix that. > Is there anything in the FreeBSD/unix world like it? No. There used to be, but for a number of years now, drives have done their own bad-sector remapping, without telling the OS about it. After a while, they may run out of space in their bad sector tables, and start reporting the failures to the OS. By that point, though, it's time to get a new hard drive. Make sure you have several good backups. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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