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From: gschmidt@noc.tor.hookup.net (Greg Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Utility to check for bad sectors?
Date: 20 May 1995 21:42:29 -0400
Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Oakville, Ontario, CANADA
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Message-ID: <3pm5q5$mct@noc.tor.hookup.net>
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I'm having a couple of problems that I think can be traced back to bad
sectors on my hard disk. Unfortunately, I don't know which ones. Is
there a utility (something like Norton's NDD) which will check for bad
sectors, and mark them as being unusable? I'm losing little bits of data
here and there (luckily all backed up), and it's got me antsy about making
any changes.
Oh, here's a couple of lines from the messages log which may be useful:
kernel: fd0: Seek to cyl 0, but not really there (ST3 = 20<drdy>)
kernel: fd0: recal failed ST0 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,equ_chck> cyl 0
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
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Greg Schmidt (gschmidt@hookup.net / hookup.net!large!gregs)
"And lo, it shall come to pass, that when the user typeth 'ls', a directory
listing shall spring forth upon the standard output, and its form shall be
governed by options, and the options shall be as follows..."
- excerpt from "The Gospel According to POSIX, Revision 2.0"