The older wd ide driver used to have bad144 bad block re-mapping, you
could scan a partition and the driver would remap hard error blocks at the
time of the initial scan to a reservred area of known good blocks.
Blocks that went bad from the time of that initial scan would need to be
added to the
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:52:38PM -0500, Joe O wrote:
The older wd ide driver used to have bad144 bad block re-mapping, you
could scan a partition and the driver would remap hard error blocks at the
time of the initial scan to a reservred area of known good blocks.
Blocks that went bad from
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
On 1 Feb 2003, at 11:19 [=GMT-0500], Lowell Gilbert wrote:
John Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
out of circulation. 'apropos badblocks' and 'man fsck' failed to suggest
such a function in fBSD, but it might be worth more looking.
badsect(8)
I tried that with the bad sector numbers (with
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:59:50AM +0100, Marc Schneiders wrote:
On 1 Feb 2003, at 11:19 [=GMT-0500], Lowell Gilbert wrote:
John Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
out of circulation. 'apropos badblocks' and 'man fsck' failed to suggest
such a function in fBSD, but it might be worth more
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
John Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
out of circulation. 'apropos badblocks' and 'man fsck' failed to suggest
such a function in fBSD, but it might be worth more looking.
badsect(8)
Why is it radical? After all, IDE disks already do bad-block
remapping internally, so you've built up a
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?
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Recently a cvsup failed because of an input/output error in the
directory /usr/src/contrib/perl5/h2pl. I tried deleting the content of
the directory, and found out there were hardware problems with the
disk. For it says:
ls: eg: Input/output error
And in the console messages:
Feb 1 00:50:10
Marc Schneiders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have searched Google to find a solution to mark off these two
blocks/inodes (or however I should call them), so that they will not
be used anymore. All I found is that this is not possible on
IDE. Advise: Throw away the disk. Now this I find a bit
Marc -
On 31 Jan 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Marc Schneiders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have searched Google to find a solution to mark off these two
blocks/inodes (or however I should call them), so that they will not
be used anymore. All I found is that this is not possible on
IDE.
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