Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:17:21 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: harddrive woes (!) Message-ID: <XFMail.990322231721.cpiazza@home.net> In-Reply-To: <19990323174001.K442@lemis.com>
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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 =/. > > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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