Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:03:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: PandT Johnson <pttjohnson@earthlink.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad144 usage Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971215120235.292x-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <34946796.313@earthlink.net>
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On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, PandT Johnson wrote: > (Second e-mail on the topic; didn't get any response to the > first e-mail plea for help. Ended up grepping all over the > place for bad144 information and reading kernel source code. > Found useful fragments of information in the FreeBSD installation > documentation in /stand/help, a few comments in the handbook, > some apparently out of date information in the bad144 man page, > and a few comments in sections 5 and 8.) > > I have a Compaq Armada 1125 laptop computer, and have had mostly > good luck with it. I've been using it for almost a year with > almost no problems. I was using FreeBSD 2.2.1, and have just > upgraded to FreeBSD 2.2.5. > > One problem I have had is hard drive bad sectors. I have now > had two sectors go bad on the IDE hard drive on my system. > You should really replace the disk if it's showing bad sectors. That means the disk's internal table is already full. It'll just get worse. 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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