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. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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