From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 5 23:20:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA18158 for current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 23:20:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helmholtz.salk.edu (helmholtz.salk.edu [198.202.70.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA18153 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 23:20:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helmholtz (helmholtz [198.202.70.34]) by helmholtz.salk.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA17169; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 23:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 23:20:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Bartol X-Sender: bartol@helmholtz To: sthaug@nethelp.no cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help! /bin/csh is gone! In-Reply-To: <7249.844526690@verdi.nethelp.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 5 Oct 1996 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > Try turning on bad sector reallocation. Have a look into the FAQ > > about the required procedure (search for the term ``AWRE''). Bad > > sectors are quite normal on a magnetic storage medium, and the vendor > > should have reserved enough replacement storage. > > > > Btw., my new Seacrate ST32155N turns out to be the first disk i've > > ever seen that has it enabled by default. > > I bought an IBM 2.16 GByte SCSI-disk (Ultrastar ES) a couple of weeks > ago - it also had reallocation turned on by default. I was pleasantly > surprised. > And, as I've just learned, so does my Quantum XP32150. But, alas my Seagate ST51080N did not. Tom