From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 23 14:23:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B71B814D01 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:23:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA24128; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:53:30 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA67133; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:53:28 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990324085327.F425@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:53:27 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Chris Piazza Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: harddrive woes (!) References: <19990323174001.K442@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Chris Piazza on Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 11:17:21PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 22 March 1999 at 23:17:21 -0800, Chris Piazza wrote: > 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 =/. Filling the drive doesn't mean you have written every sector. >> 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. It's not much of a low level format if it doesn't detect unrecoverable defects. There's a program called bad144 which we used to use for MFM drives; you might like to investigate whether it can help you. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message