From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 2 19:09:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA11105 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 19:09:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA11096 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 19:09:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA25528; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:38:33 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199802030308.NAA25528@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Jim Carroll cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd0s1e hard errors In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Feb 1998 21:54:35 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 13:38:32 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" > I have looked over the bad144 docs, but it appears this software is > considered obsolete. Unfortuantely, I cannot figure out what is it's > contemporary replacement. Try badsect.. Its actually useful :) It allocates blocks at the areas on the disk you specify and places them in dummy files.. You can use bad144 to find the dodgy sectors on your disk. (It will search for them). Good luck.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | ---------------------------------------------------------------------