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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!utcsri!cdf.toronto.edu!marvin.cdf.toronto.edu!jdd From: jdd@cdf.toronto.edu (John DiMarco) Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.1 i386 bad144 confusion Message-ID: <96Jan2.151835edt.9219@marvin.cdf.toronto.edu> Originator: root@marvin Sender: news@cdf.toronto.edu (Usenet News) Nntp-Posting-Host: marvin Organization: University of Toronto Computing Disciplines Facility Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 20:18:32 GMT Content-Length: 1079 Lines: 29 Back on December 19th, I wrote: : Having discovered a couple of bad sectors on the (IDE) hard disk I'm using, : I tried to remap them using "bad144 -a wd0 NNN NNN". That seemed to : work, and "bad144 wd0" lists the bad sectors I've specified, but they're : still apparently being used by the filesystem. Any ideas? I promised to post a summary of the emailed responses I got. Here is the promised summary: Only one person responded. He claimed that an IDE drive should be able to forward bad-sectors when the drive is zeroed. He suggested dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/yourdiskd I tried that, to no effect. I ended up solving the problem by digging up a DOS-based hard drive utility, and remapping the bad sectors using that. Thanks to Thomas Graichen <graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de> Regards, John -- John DiMarco <jdd@cdf.toronto.edu> Office: EA201B Computing Disciplines Facility Systems Manager Phone: 416-978-1928 University of Toronto Fax: 416-978-1931 http://www.cdf.toronto.edu/~jdd