Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 22:43:05 +0100 From: Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Bad sector undetected by FreeBSD install Message-ID: <20001106224305.A12073@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl>
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Hi, A friend of me is installing FreeBSD 4.1.1-R from the CD. It seems the CD was missing the fdwrite.exe program needed to write the floppy images from (Win)DO(w)S. So we used rawrite.exe from a Linux CD. No problemo. But... During the install, *after* the format, FreeBSD complains about the harddisk and crashes. Now my friend says he knows there's a bad block on the disk *somewhere*, but it seems to appear okay in some cases. My question: Does the FreeBSD 4.1.1-R install check bad blocks? And if it doesn't, is there a way to enable it? Ernst To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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