From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 18 08:05:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA26475 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 08:05:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daria.cdnow.com (daria.cdnow.com [198.138.235.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA26464 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 08:05:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from heller@localhost) by daria.cdnow.com (8.7.5/8.6.7) id LAA28624; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:01:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Karl Heller" Message-Id: <199708181501.LAA28624@daria.cdnow.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Partition Over 2048 Mega Bytes To: support@natsoft.com.au (Simon Bennet) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:01:41 -0400 (EDT) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: heller@cdnow.com In-Reply-To: <33F86CE6.6334@natsoft.com.au> from "Simon Bennet" at Aug 18, 97 04:40:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A. Karl Heller Senior Systems Engineer CDnow Inc. http://cdnow.com