Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 01:58:16 -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.3.96.980524015703.9705G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980522161743.C1071@marso.com>
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On Fri, 22 May 1998, Larry S. Marso wrote: > Is it *always* a good idea to bad block scan new disk partitions as a > matter of practice, when initially creating freebsd partitions? Or does > this introduce an element of uncertainty/instability? 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. If you have bad sectors showing then you need to run a verify on the disk and make sure sector remapping is enabled. 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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