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#! rnews 1730 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.easystreet.com!not-for-mail From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@portsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can ... under FreeBSD? Date: 18 Mar 1997 20:59:57 GMT Organization: Portland Software Lines: 27 Message-ID: <01bc33df$96d694a0$7c01a8c0@teds.portsoft.com> References: <332B35D4.408A@stu.ust.hk> <5ggpgt$6ut@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunnet.portsoft.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37407 J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote in article <5ggpgt$6ut@uriah.heep.sax.de>... > Wong Chin Pang <ch_wcp@stu.ust.hk> wrote: > > > Harddisk problem due to bad sectors which cause serious errors when > > booting and halting the system (...can't write to particular sectors). > > > > Can i fix it by "bad144" or other command? > > What kind of harddisk? The sd (SCSI disk) driver doesn't support > bad144, but most SCSI disks support automatic remapping if told so. > The wd (ST-506 etc.) driver supports bad144. Setting it up might be > painful since only very few diehard people still seem to use it. > Not really. All you need to do is select Bad Sector Scanning in the fdisk screen during the initial installation, and the bad144 is set up automatically. You only have to get into the ugly stuff if your adding a second disk which needs it - and even then it's questionable if the the wd driver supports bad144 on a second disk even if the table is there.