Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 15:41:19 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Hardware problems Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950803153952.165B-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508030928.SAA02963@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Thu, 3 Aug 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > -Vince- stands accused of saying: > > > You have a bad sector on your disk. Read the bad144 manual page for > > > one means of dealing with it, and the badsect manual page for another. > > > > Really? I never knew IDE Hard drives especially the new models > > have bad sectors on it... Hopefully the manual pages is self explanatary.. > > Thanks anyways! > > All disks have bad sectors; it's just that some deal with them better than > others. In your case, simply writing to the sector may be enough to > convince the drive to reallocate it, certainly few drives would > automatically reallocate on reads by default. I read the man pages but how do I use bad144 and badsect exactly? Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free!
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