Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:35:51 -0800 (PST) From: David Babler <dbabler@Rigel.orionsys.com> To: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: HELP! Removing bad144 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003271225130.3164-100000@Rigel.orionsys.com>
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I am attempting to upgrade one of my servers to 4.0 from 3.3-STABLE and seem to be mostly there except for one problem: all of the current drives employ bad144 mapping and the new IDE disk devices no longer support bad144. I've looked thru the archives and found only how to ADD bad144, not remove it. How can I remove bad144 bad sector mapping on existing drives without reformatting them? <justification> Now before I get flamed for having the 'ancient' bad144 mapping in the first place, let me say that *ALL* of my machines have bad144 maps because of past experience with drives. The common wisdom is that all modern IDE drives to remapping automatically... unfortunately, this is not the case. I've had a couple of Western Digital drives in the past year that had started popping up with bad sectors. WD tech support said that many of their IDE drives do NOT automatically do bad sector remapping. Before returning the drive, I ran the WD DOS utility on it, not hoping for anything. To my surprise it scanned the disk, say "I found errors" and asked if I wanted to fix (remap, I assume) them. The drive then was fine and FBSD was happy with it. So I ran bad144 and have added that to the sysinstall every system I built afterward. </justification> -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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