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Date:      Wed, 10 Apr 1996 21:20:30 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Chang)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hard reading error
Message-ID:  <199604101920.VAA00794@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960409151600.24231o-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> from "Richard Chang" at Apr 9, 96 03:17:20 pm

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As Richard Chang wrote:

> 	Hmmm, I don't have a backup... Otherwise I would just copy the HD 
> to another HD and just reinstall FreeBSD then copy the stuff from the 
> backup drive...

Of course, this *won't* repair your disk.  It would still experience
the bad sectors.  Reformat it (hardware reformat) before reinstalling
FreeBSD on it.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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