From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 12:31:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16ED137B401 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:31:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aviti.net (aviti.net [217.144.68.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7628243F85 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:31:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from life@zone3000.net) Received: from zone3000.kharkov.ua ([217.144.68.98] helo=adserver.zone3000.net) by aviti.net with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19flnu-000E2z-OO for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 22:31:06 +0300 Received: from narik ([10.1.1.36]) by adserver.zone3000.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 22:36:52 +0300 Message-ID: <011701c3521a$202c3020$2401010a@zone3000.net> From: "Vitali Malicky" To: "Alfonso Romero" , "freebsd-questions" References: <002501c35218$51d7dd60$0100a8c0@ibacsoft.dynu.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 22:31:05 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Jul 2003 19:36:52.0500 (UTC) FILETIME=[EEC4AD40:01C3521A] X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *19flnu-000E2z-OO*vUTt.oejIno* Subject: Re: marking bad blocks on a hard disk drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Vitali Malicky List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:31:13 -0000 >I?m installing FreeBSD 4.8 on a 8GB HDD, but it has some bad sectors. How can I tell FreeBSD not to use these bad sectors? I'm afraid you can't... :( this is from one of my previous posting Re: Promise Ultra100 TX2 support broken? From: "Vitali Malicky" To: "Felix Deichmann" , References: <3F1FDD81.1000904@web.de> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:43:33 +0300 =================== After "clever" HDD's which "burn" the information about their bad blocks by themselves came to the scene FreeBSD, AFAIK, stopped supporting such a feature as searching and marking bad blocks.... =================== Good luck! >Thanks in advance de nada >ALfonso Romero