Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 07:01:09 +0200 From: Nevermind <never@nevermind.kiev.ua> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bad block search/marking as unusable [need an advice]... Message-ID: <20010209070108.A11138@nevermind.kiev.ua>
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[Please, when answering, Cc: me, because I'm not subscribed to -questions] Dear Sirs, I would like to know if there is way to scan hard drive for bad blocks and mark them as unsable on live system. I mean I have no ability to reinstall from scratch, so using BIOS's low level format is not avaliable (I have very poor internet connection speed (14400 bit/sec, have no floppy drive, have no cd-rom drive and so on). The point is that my HD is very old and small: ad0: 519MB <M1603TA> [1055/16/63] at ata0-master WDMA2 and it has a lot of bad blocks. I need them to be not usable by filesystem so that I'm not loosing my data. Thanx for your answers. I really need and appreciate them. -- NEVE-RIPE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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