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From: bob@reed.edu (Robert Ankeney)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Installing on IDE drive with many bad sectors?
Date: 30 Jan 1995 19:36:53 GMT
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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We'd like to install FreeBSD on a system here at work. It has a 245 Meg
hard drive with *many* bad sectors. Is there some utility I can run to map
these bad sectors out? We did a scan with bad144, which found a lot but didn't
seem to do anything with them. Any advice (short of get a new drive!) would
be appreciated! BTW, the drive is a 3.5" IDE drive.
Thanks!
Robert
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