Re: Problems with 3.4-STABLE custom kernel

[Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Conrad Sabatier 
writes:
> 
> On 17-Jan-00 Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > At 12:46 PM 1/17/00 -0600, Conrad Sabatier wrote:
> >>
> >>On 17-Jan-00 Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> On first glance, it would seem you have come across a bad sector
> >>> on
> >>> your hard drive.
> >>
> >>So why then wouldn't booting into kernel.old detect the same
> >>problem?
> > 
> > Perhaps because something is trying to read from a bad sector.
> 
> So, what would be the fix for this?  fsck?

Some drives (mostly SCSI) will remap the bad sectors automatically.  
Some drive manufacturers provide a utility that can be run from DOS 
that will remap bad sectors.


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