Formatting a harddisk with defective sectors
Hi! I have an 8 GB harddisk that I want to use in a Intel P1 / 150 MHz with 128 MB EDO-RAM system. Yes, that's for real. This harddisk has one defective sector which causes the installation that's already on this disk to complain about not being able to clean the /home partition via fsck. My question: Is there a way to exclude the defective sectors from being accessible at the time the disk is completely initialized for a new install (slices, partitions, format, tunefs)? Goal: As long as the defective sectors won't multiply, if nobody ever touches them, the disk should run fine. Thanks for hints! -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Formatting a harddisk with defective sectors
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 06:31:09PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: Hi! I have an 8 GB harddisk that I want to use in a Intel P1 / 150 MHz with 128 MB EDO-RAM system. Yes, that's for real. This harddisk has one defective sector which causes the installation that's already on this disk to complain about not being able to clean the /home partition via fsck. My question: Is there a way to exclude the defective sectors from being accessible at the time the disk is completely initialized for a new install (slices, partitions, format, tunefs)? Goal: As long as the defective sectors won't multiply, if nobody ever touches them, the disk should run fine. See badsect(8). Use between mkfs and install (hint: switch to holographic shell). Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpxSN0yykXCw.pgp Description: PGP signature
