From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 30 9:31:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2010537B71B for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:31:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.3) with SMTP id f2UHTD523143; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:29:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <027501c0b93f$1caea660$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Hal Weaver" Cc: References: <3AC3A738.B73B0404@pinetel.com> <00d401c0b897$a88f25e0$0204a8c0@dfgh> <003501c0b89b$786a06b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <3AC3FC42.9931CB96@pinetel.com> <003401c0b8ce$886e7d10$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <3AC4B87B.A2FCB938@pinetel.com> Subject: Re: Slow, noisey hard drive activity Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:30:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I don't know if FreeBSD has any native tools to check for such errors and > > mark them (a la DOS's scandisk), and since I'm guessing that these drives > > are ATA, you can't use the controllers' "scan media for defects" option like > > you can for SCSI drives. > > Matt, this sounds quite possible. This is an ATA drive. Do you have a > hypothesis why the two Linux distribution that I installed on this > partition didn't seem to be affected by a bad sector? Linux uses a different filesystem than FreeBSD. It's quite possible that Linux stored information (whether filesystem metainformation or file data) not on the bad sectors, whereas FreeBSD did -- solely by virtue of how the filesystem is laid out. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message