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Date:      Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:13:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Haobo Yu <haoboy@isi.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, faber@isi.edu
Subject:   Re: bad blocks on hard disk
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980322201222.12360N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980318133835.367D-100000@hoe.isi.edu>

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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



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