Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 20:40:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Larry S. Marso" <larry@marso.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should I bad block scan? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980526204016.13318b-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980524160021.C257@marso.com>
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On Sun, 24 May 1998, Larry S. Marso wrote: > On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 01:58:16AM -0700, Doug White wrote: > > On Fri, 22 May 1998, Larry S. Marso wrote: > > > > For a while it was broken for disks >2GB. In addition bad block checks > > should NOT be necessary since all modern disks do sector remapping. > > By modern, do you mean SCSI only? I'm having this problem on my laptop. Modern as in made in the 1990s. IDE disks do it too (although you may have to use a utility to enable it). > >If > you have bad sectors showing then you need to run a verify on the > disk and > make sure sector remapping is enabled. > > Can you refer me to instructions? It's vendor-dependent. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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