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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!world!umar From: umar@world.std.com (Robert O Landry) Subject: Bad blocks on my hard drive Message-ID: <D1p5H4.I45@world.std.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Date: Sat, 31 Dec 1994 22:36:40 GMT Lines: 11 I've installed NetBSD 1.0 on an IDE drive in my 386 clone. There are nine bad spots on the disk; in the days when I used to run DOS on this machine the DOS FROMAT command would lock these bad blocks out automatically. Now DOS is gone and I'm running NetBSD. NetBSD doesn't know these blocks are bad and every once in a while tries to write to one, giving me a "Hard error writing ..." message. Is there any way to tell NetBSD not to write to those blocks? I'm trying to unpack some tar files and keep encountering the bad blocks.