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Subject: RE: harddrive woes (!)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:04:17 -0700
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> ----------
> From: 	Chris Piazza[SMTP:cpiazza@home.net]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, March 23, 1999 12:17 AM
> To: 	Greg Lehey
> Cc: 	questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: 	Re: harddrive woes (!)
> 
> On 23-Mar-99 Greg Lehey wrote:
> > On Monday, 22 March 1999 at 22:34:37 -0800, Chris Piazza wrote:
> > 
> > This is telling you that the sector you're looking for on the disk
> > simply isn't there.  This isn't FreeBSD, it's the drive itself.
> > 
> >> It seems to me like FreeBSD spammed my harddrive with something, but
> >> what I don't understand is why other OS' do not even think twice
> >> about it.
> > 
> > There are two possibilities here:
> > 
> > 1.  The other OSs don't try to access this sector.
> > 2.  They ignore the error.
> 
> My problem with this is I can't even write 100k on to this partition
> (about 3.3
> gigs, at the end of the drive) in FreeBSD, yet I've filled the drive in
> both
> Linux and FreeBSD =/.
You might try to repartition the drive. Create a small partition at the
beginning 
that will include the bad block. Create another partition that holds the
remainder.
Don't use the bad block partition.


> > 
> > Hopefully (1) is the correct answer :-)
> > 
> >> Is there any way to wipe this part of the drive "totally" clean?
> > 
> > Some format utilities can do this for you.  Unfortunately FreeBSD
> > doesn't supply anything to format IDE drives.  Does your BIOS have
> > something?
> > 
> 
> It has the 'low level format', of course ;).  And this error has survived
> through that.
> 
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