From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 20 16:47:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7301014DD6 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:47:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a064.otenet.gr [195.167.115.64]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA09320 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 02:47:03 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (qmail 1584 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Oct 1999 23:48:53 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard Disk Error on FreeBSD-3.3 PLEASE HELP References: <19991020210245.8619.rocketmail@web106.yahoomail.com> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 21 Oct 1999 02:48:53 +0300 In-Reply-To: Joss Roots's message of "Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:02:45 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: <86d7u9r3tm.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joss Roots writes: > > badsect(8) might even work, although I'd > > be suspicious on an > > IDE disk. > > I am not sure what you mean for the moment, have > not read the man pages yet, but may be you mean > badsect is for scsi disks ?? Some newer IDE disks are in the habbit of "remapping" bad sectors, and if this is the case with your disk, badsect might actually mess things up instead of fixing them. I think that is what was meant. It has happened to me once, not with FreeBSD but with Linux that I used until a couple of months ago. -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message