Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:30:27 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Hal Weaver" <hweaver@pinetel.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Slow, noisey hard drive activity Message-ID: <027501c0b93f$1caea660$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <3AC3A738.B73B0404@pinetel.com> <00d401c0b897$a88f25e0$0204a8c0@dfgh> <003501c0b89b$786a06b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <3AC3FC42.9931CB96@pinetel.com> <003401c0b8ce$886e7d10$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <3AC4B87B.A2FCB938@pinetel.com>
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> > 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
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