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Date:      Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:58:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:      djv@bedford.net
To:        yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr (Evren Yurtesen)
Cc:        djv@bedford.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: couldn't set disk in "badscan" mode: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Message-ID:  <199808111858.OAA18994@lucy.bedford.net>
In-Reply-To: <35D088AC.1FB450CF@turkey.ispro.net.tr> from Evren Yurtesen at "Aug 11, 98 09:08:44 pm"

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Evren Yurtesen wrote
> well, I am able to use bad144 on my ide drive at home...

Interesting.

> but here at home I have another problem with it...
> it just supports 126 bad sectors per slide and my hard drive
> has a lot more than 126  : )
> 

Sure sounds like the drive is in trouble.  If the bad sectors
are grouped closely, you can re-do the slices or BSD partitions
so that the bad sectors are not part of any file system. Other
than that, I think it might be time to go to the store. :(

Dave

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