Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:04:17 -0700 From: johnsond@HUACHUCA-EMH1.ARMY.MIL To: cpiazza@home.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: harddrive woes (!) Message-ID: <057BE3B7E157D211BB650008C7A42ECC017282CE@HUADOIMC2I>
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> ---------- > From: Chris Piazza[SMTP:cpiazza@home.net] > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 12:17 AM > To: Greg Lehey > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: harddrive woes (!) > > 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 =/. You might try to repartition the drive. Create a small partition at the beginning that will include the bad block. Create another partition that holds the remainder. Don't use the bad block partition. > > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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