Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 19:28:40 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Cc: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hard reading error Message-ID: <199604120228.TAA00545@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199604111556.RAA05595@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 11, 96 05:56:19 pm
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> > > Basically yes, if you *hardware reformat* your drive at the point i've > > > marked with an (*) above. > > > Hmmm, would't the program in the FreeBSD installation program > > before it adds the distribution after fdisk do the same thing? > > No. No known (to me) operating system does hardware-format the hard > disk before installing. NetWare's "compsurf" comes to mind... But it's more of an intense error scan than anything else. BSD already handles errors the way you caused them (man badsect). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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