Re: Managing bad sectors during install

2005-02-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Pásztor Richárd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have 2 small problems about installing FreeBSD. 1) My HDD is a 8,4 Gb quantum, which has 1 bad sector laying on it somewhere. I created ntfs partition on it, and format detected that sector, and marked as bad so there was no problem of data loss

Managing bad sectors during install

2005-02-17 Thread Pásztor Richárd
I think this 8,4 quantum is old enough to not contain so called spare sectors. So 1 bad sector means there is really only 1 bad sector. Anyway i still cant understand, why UFS cant cope with bad blocks, but 1000 year old FAT, or the newer NTFS can easyli get through the problem. The other

Re: Managing bad sectors during install

2005-02-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 11:09:12PM +0100, P?sztor Rich?rd wrote: I think this 8,4 quantum is old enough to not contain so called spare sectors. So 1 bad sector means there is really only 1 bad sector. Anyway i still cant understand, why UFS cant cope with bad blocks, but 1000 year old FAT,

Managing bad sectors during install

2005-02-16 Thread Pásztor Richárd
I have 2 small problems about installing FreeBSD. 1) My HDD is a 8,4 Gb quantum, which has 1 bad sector laying on it somewhere. I created ntfs partition on it, and format detected that sector, and marked as bad so there was no problem of data loss because writing to that sector. Now, if i fdisk