Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:46:37 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.dk> To: kent@tfd.com (Kent Hauser) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large IDE disks Message-ID: <199711201646.RAA01177@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199711201539.KAA14531@rtp.tfd.com> from Kent Hauser at "Nov 20, 97 10:39:01 am"
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In reply to Kent Hauser who wrote:
>
> I'm putting a 2.2 GB IDE disk in my laptop. The problem is the
> bad sector information. With the straightforward approach, you
> can only store 126 bad sectors. A lot more than that were found.
If you have ANY bad sectors on a modern IDE disk, you should get it
replaced, its BAD or going to be soon :(
> My question is: how's this done? How do you get freebsd to
> handle big disks?
(E)IDE disks should not have any bad spots, its handeled by the drive
much like SCSI. If your drive turns up bad sectors it has already used
up its internal spare sectors, and is to be considered dead, and if
under warranty it should be replaced.
Therefore the bad sector support is kind of outdated, and the amount
it can hold is/was enough for the old drives that needed it...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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