Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 00:42:39 -0400 From: "Paul Missman" <missmanp@milo.cfw.com> To: "John Kenagy" <jktheowl@bga.com>, "questions freebsd" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: soft read errors (oh noooo..) Message-ID: <199709020438.VAA13572@hub.freebsd.org>
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Hi John, If you have a Western Digital disk drive, there is a program which you can download from their website which will test the drive, and attempt to remap all bad sectors. You will probably have to run this program from DOS. (You can use a floppy for this purpose.) If it is another brand of disk drive, check that manufacturer's website for corresponding software. Also, as you might guess, the end is probably near for that drive. Get a replacement whenever you can afford it. As for the power center, it is fine as long as the disk gets synced before the CPU is halted. Paul Missman >Greetings, > >I'm limping along with soft read errors on the /usr and /var file >systems. It started with the same numbers and has since included new ones. >The drive is an 850MB, two years old, IDE (I know, I know...). > >Does FreeBSD map bad blocks on configuration/installation? I don't >remember. One other question I'm nervous about, do those power center >thingys under the monitor do bad things even if the disks are all >sync'ed on normal shutdown? (Those flat boxes with slight surge >protection and a switch for each device) > >I have all of my data on another drive (backed up, of course) and don't >want to excercise things much till I decide if trashing the disk is >necessary. What are the alternatives? > >Please cc me directly, as I'm not on the list while this is going on. > >Thanks for your support! > >John >
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