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Date:      Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:32:27 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, reese@chem.duke.edu, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Boot up failure
Message-ID:  <199706110002.JAA12555@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199706101742.MAA00935@compound.east.sun.com> from Tony Kimball at "Jun 10, 97 12:42:31 pm"

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Tony Kimball stands accused of saying:
> 
> I have a large IDE disk with one block that will not read.
> Am I to understand that FBSD provides no mechanism to deal
> with a single bad block on a disk?

No, FreeBSD provides several mehanisms for dealing with bad blocks.
In your case, I would try the 'badsect' manpage, and possibly also
'bad144'.

The previous correspondent had a disk showing the signs of
catastrophic failure, which no bad-sector-remapping program is going
to help.

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