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From: shad@iastate.edu (Hanse ShadowSpawn)
Subject: Bad sectors on an IDE
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Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 06:04:46 GMT
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I don't know which group this is more appropriate for, but there seem to
be a lot of people here that have hardware experience and it's a
potential development idea. Anyway, enough preamble. Here's the
problem:
For the past few weeks I've been trying to install FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE.
I was having "Can't allocate memory" errors after running configure. I
finally figured out that I was getting hard drive errors due to unmapped
bad sectors on my IDE drive. Is there a way to mark these sectors as
bad (the same way DOS does and does well) so that the OS won't try to
use them? I know that there is a media analysis option in the AMI BIOS
(the version I'm running) that will supposedly update a bad sector
table, but is that meant for IDE drives? I don't really want to do
damage to my drive and the total of bad sectors is less than 1% of my
drive (which is acceptable to me). Is there a Norton Disk Doctor style
program for FreeBSD or NetBSD that takes care of this problem? I want
to get a *BSD system running and can't. Any help would be appreciated.
I can send the sysconfig if necessary. The basics are a 486DX/2-66MHz
EISA with a DTC 2290 EISA IDE controller and a MAXTOR LXT-535A IDE hard
drive. Thanks in advance.
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