From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 22 20:13:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA12441 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:13:22 -0800 (PST) (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 UAA12434 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:13:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA12441; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:13:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:13:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Haobo Yu cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, faber@isi.edu Subject: Re: bad blocks on hard disk In-Reply-To: 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 Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Haobo Yu wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a PC. It worked great until last week. A > power failure left many bad blocks on my hard disk (Seagate ST36450, IDE), > both in my swap partition and my home partition. I looked through the > handbook and FAQ and man pages, bad144 and badsect are the only thing I > could find. Yuck. :( If a power outage fried your hard drive you're probably better off replacing it before it goes totally. IDE drives will automatically remap bad sectors; if they run out of remap sectors then it's about time to cycle the drive out. 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