From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 4 4:17:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E1937B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 04:17:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from vsmi.ru (ns.vsmi.ru [217.23.84.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8070743EC2 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 04:17:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from info@volginfo.ru) Received: (qmail 93910 invoked by uid 85); 4 Jan 2003 15:23:16 -0000 Received: from info@volginfo.ru by mail.vsmi.ru by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.12 (. Clear:. Processed in 0.081056 secs); 04 Jan 2003 15:23:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO img.local) (192.168.0.1) by 192.168.0.50 with SMTP; 4 Jan 2003 15:23:15 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Denis N. Peplin" To: Andreas Ntaflos , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Saving a partially rotting IBM DTLA-307030 Harddisk Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:23:57 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <20030102162648.GA22880@Deadcell.ant> In-Reply-To: <20030102162648.GA22880@Deadcell.ant> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200301041523.57357.info@volginfo.ru> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 02 January 2003 19:26, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: > Hello list, > > I've got the following problem which I hope someone could help me with: > One of my boxes running FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE has an IBM DTLA-307030 (30GB) > which worked very well for more than 2 years now, but I think it starts > rotting away according the following: > > As can be seen, the data in that affected area is virtually lost, but > luckily not very important. So my question is, what can I do to get > the disk fully operational again? Some time ago I read that writing > binary zeroes there could be used as some kind of low-level-format to get > rid of the bad sectors. If this would be of any use, how would I accomplish > to dd /dev/zero to just that specific part of the disk, leaving the rest > intact? Is that possible at all? Or are there any other ways to solve that > problem, apart from buying a new disk or low-level-formating the whole > thing? Try "Drive Fitness Test", http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message