Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 15:22:47 -0400 From: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> To: Craig Hawco <dest@syd.eastlink.ca> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bad IDE Drive Message-ID: <20001006152247.B82507@pawn.primelocation.net> In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20001006160901.009eb5d0@pop.syd.eastlink.ca>; from dest@syd.eastlink.ca on Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:14:38PM -0300 References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001006160901.009eb5d0@pop.syd.eastlink.ca>
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:14:38PM -0300, Craig Hawco wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently fled from FreeBSD back into (ugh) windows because of a > minor drive problem. It seems that my drive has a few bad blocks, and I > know what they are. FreeBSD seems to try to write to the same bad sectors > every time, and keeps printing errors that it can't write to the block, etc > etc. The thing is it's the same few (about a dozen) sectors, about 8/10ths > the way through the drive. I could use only up to that amount, but that > doesn't seem like an elegant solution leaving a few hundred megs of empty > space. Is there a way to have FreeBSD map the sectors and try to neither > read nor write to them? It wouldn't be a problem (I can turn off syslog and > get rid of the nasty messages ;) if it didn't cause the filesystem to > become corrupted (fsck tries to read/fix the data on the bad spots and > dies). Hope someone out there can help. > Most modern IDE drives automatically remap bad sectors. If the drive can no longer remap bad sectors itself, it is probably time to replace it. -- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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