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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can ... under FreeBSD?
Date: 17 Mar 1997 22:46:06 GMT
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giffin@fas.harvard.edu (Daniel B Giffin) wrote:
> I've got bad sectors too -- on an IDE disk. I've been struggling with
> bad144, and managed I think to scan the disk and generate a list of bad
> blocks ("bad144 -s"). Could anyone explain what happens next (the actual
> bad144 command)? I think the bad list needs to be written to the disk
> somehow? Or is the consensus that bad block means bad disk and I should
> just chuck it? Thanks for any help.
It is consensus. If the disk is still under warranty, return it.
(For SCSI disks, things are a little different since most vendors
don't ship them with automatic bad sector replacement turned on by
default -- it's user-selectable there.)
Otherwise, make sure that your disk partitioning has spared the last
cylinder, and initialize the bad sector table:
bad144 wd0 0 badsec1 badsec2 ...
I don't know what's the sense of the serial # (0 in this case), and
all this is from fading memory when i've been actually using my last
ESDI drive years ago.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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