This has been an open question - I dont believe IDE's do much of their own bad block marking -
there used to be a utility called bad144 - though I dont know that it did much - I know SCO has a utility. On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Marc Schneiders wrote: > On 31 Jan 2003, at 19:43 [=GMT-0500], 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. Advise: Throw away the disk. Now this I find a bit radical :-) > > > Esp. since the disk is about 3 years old. > > > > Why is it radical? > > Because it involves a lot of work to backup the disk, open up the > machine, check it with some software that reports something that I > could tell Maxtor, have them give me another disk (if they do that). > Wait, wait, wait. And all this time machine not working obviously, > which is extra bad since it is the key machine here that connects > others to the internet. > > All in all I would say 10 hours work, a few weeks of waiting. > > So why not first try something (if it exists, which was my question) > that does not involve picking up a screwdriver and turning of my > network here? Or lets say I am poor (which I am) and cannot really > just run off and buy a new disk? The one with problems may be under > warrenty, it may not. I cannot tell before I take the machine apart > and read the serial on the disk. > > 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. > > > After all, IDE disks already do bad-block > > remapping internally, so you've built up a *lot* of bad sectors > > already if they're starting to become visible to the operating > > system... > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
