From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 26 20:41:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05816 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 20:41:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA05740 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 20:40:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA29852; Tue, 26 May 1998 20:40:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 20:40:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Larry S. Marso" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should I bad block scan? In-Reply-To: <19980524160021.C257@marso.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 24 May 1998, Larry S. Marso wrote: > On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 01:58:16AM -0700, Doug White wrote: > > On Fri, 22 May 1998, Larry S. Marso wrote: > > > > For a while it was broken for disks >2GB. In addition bad block checks > > should NOT be necessary since all modern disks do sector remapping. > > By modern, do you mean SCSI only? I'm having this problem on my laptop. Modern as in made in the 1990s. IDE disks do it too (although you may have to use a utility to enable it). > >If > you have bad sectors showing then you need to run a verify on the > disk and > make sure sector remapping is enabled. > > Can you refer me to instructions? It's vendor-dependent. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message