Re: Multiple solutions for a problem (Re: How to map bad sectors on IDE?)
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:17:45PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Stephen Hovey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This has been an open question - I dont believe IDE's do much of their own bad block marking - They do, probably because the chances of manafacturing a totally error free disk are pretty low. Same with CD's by the way, they mark off bad areas up to a point. Which is why making copies of CD's that are themselves copies sometimes does not work, since you inherit the bad track markings from the copied CD plus your new ones, and there is a limit to how much of a CD can be marked bad. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Multiple solutions for a problem (Re: How to map bad sectors on IDE?)
Marc Schneiders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Your advise sounds perfectly sound for IBM and Microsoft and the Pentagon. But for a home or small office situation, there might be another way to deal with it? Especially since we are not talking about something 10 years old or heavily used in a mailserver. The disk is *already* suffering from massive failure. You are more or less *guaranteed* that it's going to get worse, quickly. badsect(8) is still part of FreeBSD, but on disks less than (coincidentally) about 10 years old, it's pretty much useless, because sectors are going to continue going bad so quickly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Multiple solutions for a problem (Re: How to map bad sectors on IDE?)
Stephen Hovey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This has been an open question - I dont believe IDE's do much of their own bad block marking - The manufacturers claim otherwise; do you know something the rest of us don't? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
