Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 21:22:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: root <root@cwo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bad Sectors Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961106212127.12066D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199611062306.PAA21512@cwo.com>
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On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, root wrote: > I have FBSD 2.1.5R on a Zapa motherboard w/32MB RAM. The affected > disk is a EIDE drive. > > I have suddenly come across a bad sector that is affecting only 4 files > in the /usr/libexec directory. These are catman.local, makewhatis.local, > telnetd and ld.so. I have copied all the files, except these 4, into > a backup directory. bad144 and badsect do not work as I can't access > ld.so. How can I recover from this and mark the sectors bad? Try moving ld.so (or copying it from the Live Filesystem CD) to another directory, for example /usr/bin. Then try badsect. Be sure to read the man pages for those utils before using them. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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