Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 21:42:06 -0800 (PST) From: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, haoboy@isi.edu Subject: RE: questions-digest V4 #122 Message-ID: <XFMail.980318214206.dburr@POBoxes.com> In-Reply-To: <199803190048.QAA05600@hub.freebsd.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- My secret spy satellite informs me that on 19-Mar-98, questions-digest wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a PC. It worked great until last week. A > power failure left many bad blocks on my hard disk (Seagate ST36450, > IDE), > both in my swap partition and my home partition. I looked through the > handbook and FAQ and man pages, bad144 and badsect are the only thing I > could find. > > I tried to use bad144 to correct it, but it complained about > too many bad blocks in a slice. It seems that bad144 can only handle 126 > bad sectors per slice and I got too many. > > I couldn't use badsect because (1) my swap partition is corrupted; (2) I > don't know how to generate a list of all bad sectors. > > I also tried to reformat my partition using /stand/sysinstall. It seems > that it also relies on bad144, and newfs simply doesn't do surface check > at all. So this try failed again. YOu might want to consider upgrading to 2.2.5. I was completely unable to install 2.2.2 on my laptop because it had too many bad sectors. 2.2.5 however installed perfectly for some reason. (I think bad block handling has improved between the two releases) Just be sure to, when configuring the disk (the FIRST screen) hit "b" (or something like that) on your FreeBSD slice to check for bad blocks. - --- Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your WWW HomePage: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNRCwLfjpixuAwagxAQGrrwP+KvHdxy5KLqanV7TotDDjHfFfSui4GlDr pb1s/Hc7njbQyLjmPQ/obBDZv4ZHWHys+oq+F9NZZzEao++EXZnpNY7FIk8DwWyv tB6yWr08RCEfE2Kt+rxiCVD6z/yBXdpocij74m20DjsrNDmP6Zl7VWO9WjImU64n TAYBKSn1S5A= =Xpv4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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