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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: bad block scan crashes -- help! Date: 14 Apr 1997 21:15:34 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 35 Message-ID: <5iu6pm$26m@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3351E4DD.41C6@gambier.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39139 Kyle Schalm <b9g1@gambier.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> wrote: > during installation of 2.2.1, i select the entire drive (IDE) for > FreeBSD use (with no compatibility option) and then select > "B" - bad block scan option. after it does the scan, it crashes, > printing out "signal 10 caught - that's bad!" and beeping That's bad -- but why do you do a bad block scan on an IDE disk at all? If the disk has bad blocks, it's faulty, and you should better replace it. The bad144 facility is poorly maintained these days, and should probably be taken with a grain of salt. It's a ``for experts only'' item, since only experts probably still have the ESDI drive where this option was really required. > what i want to know is, is this an installation script problem, > did i do something wrong, or do i just have a hardware problem? Installation program problem. > any help is appreciated. please respond by email to > b9g1@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca since i don't monitor this newsgroup. Sorry for you. You're expecting that we take the time to answer your questions, so we are expecting that you take the time to read the newsgroup. Mail costs me extra money (since i handle it more urgent than news). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)