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Date:      Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:01:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "A. Karl Heller" <heller@daria.cdnow.com>
To:        support@natsoft.com.au (Simon Bennet)
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Partition Over 2048 Mega Bytes
Message-ID:  <199708181501.LAA28624@daria.cdnow.com>
In-Reply-To: <33F86CE6.6334@natsoft.com.au> from "Simon Bennet" at Aug 18, 97 04:40:22 pm

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> I am attempting to install FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE on a Pentium 150MHz
> with a 3Gig IDE Hard Drive.

> When you run the bad block scan (bad144), at install time,  it fails at
> the 2048 MByte point with every block past there being reported as
> an error. This happens whether the drive is in LBA or NORMAL mode.

  Don't run bad144.  IDE ( hahaha ) and SCSI drives automatically map out
bad sectors.

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A. Karl Heller
Senior Systems Engineer
CDnow Inc.
http://cdnow.com



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