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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FBSD & old HDs
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>In all cases FreeBSD version was 2.0-950210-SNAP.

>May be somebody had the same problems ? It will be very interesting for
>me to know why was the problem with 2nd box ?

Very old drives can have bad sectors.  You have to use bad144 on them.
bad144 didn't work on 950210.

I'm not sure how old your drives are.  If they are IDE, maybe they are
early IDE, before the standard settled.

Bruce