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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!umn.edu!news From: wagner@main.mndly.umn.edu Subject: ARGH! FreeBSD 1.0 and ST506 type drives. Message-ID: <CG314H.1CG@news.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Nntp-Posting-Host: dialup-1-78.gw.umn.edu Reply-To: wagner@main.mndly.umn.edu Organization: The Minnesota Daily X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.00 Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1993 18:07:03 GMT Lines: 22 I'm trying to install FreeBSD v1.0 on an 386/40 machine with regular MFM type drives. The problem here is that there are bad blocks on the drive and BAD144 doesn't appear to be mapping them correctly. When it formats the partitition it gets many read errors. My first problem was that one of the super-blocks was on a bad sector, but I managed to get around that by slightly changing the partition sizes. I still get errors though, when writing to the disk during installation causing some of the files not to be copied, which kills the installation. I've tried doing a bad144 -s /dev/rwd0e which seems to locate all the bad sectors but doesn't fix them! (BTW: I've retested the drive in DOS, and DOS finds all the bad sectors fine.) Can somebody help me out? I really want to get this machine up and running. Thanks. Rick W. wagner@main.mndly.umn.edu