Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 16:39:14 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Nick Rogness <nick@rapidnet.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad Block scan Message-ID: <20000516163914.A8494@orion.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10005161656490.69681-100000@rapidnet.com>; from nick@rapidnet.com on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 04:59:11PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10005161656490.69681-100000@rapidnet.com>
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On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 04:59:11PM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote: > > I thought FreeBSD had an option on install to run a bad block scan on a > drive? Just installed (4.0-RELEASE) and noticed it wasn't there. Any > specific reason...or maybe a reference page that explains. Thanks in > advance. Bad block management was removed in 4.0. All modern drives (ATA and SCSI) do hardware bad block management and no one wanted to maintain the old code so it was killed. The general feeling is that if your disk generates errors it has run out of replacement sectors and thus is dying and should be replaced. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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