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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:15:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
To:        Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
Cc:        FreeBSD-hackers <FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: bad sectors and sysinstall
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970730111401.18449A-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199707292303.BAA10072@gvr.win.tue.nl>

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On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Guido van Rooij wrote:

> I've got an IDE drive with bad sectors I still want to use.
> I think bad144 is the thing to use, however sysinstall does not
> seem to be able to specify it. Am I missing something?
> Further; are there any caveats I should know?
> 

When you are partitioning the drive ( _not_ labeling it ), select each
partition that you want to scan for bad blocks and hit 'b'.  That will
have bad144 run on those partitions automatically.

--
David Cross





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