Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 22:15:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: dan <dan@joshua.sns.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad Blocks on IDE Drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971005221343.2950D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971003005717.4180A-100000@joshua.sns.org>
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On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, dan wrote: > > Hello! I am continuing my battle to install -CURRENT on a 1.6Gb IDE > Western Digital Drive. I have tried installing via FTP a number of times > and ran into wd0: soft error and wd0: hard error's. The recommendations > from my first post indicated that I had some bad blocks on the drive. I > tried to do a bad block/low level format of the drive but my bios did not > support this. I downloaded a util from WD to lowlevel the drive and gave > it a shot. Again installation failed. > > I switched to a brand new, ultra modern motherboard and ran the > bios lowlevel/bad block marking routine. Both the WD and BIOS utils find > no bad blocks. Again installation fails. So I gave it one last shot and > selected bad block scan from the FreeBSD FDISK screen. The scan found > roughly 9 bad sectors and then started picking out bad blocks. This became > rather tedious so I left the room and came back to find that bad144 had > found too many bad blocks and was exiting. Well, this probably means that your disk is bad or your controller isn't FreeBSD-happy. Try replacing your disk. 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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