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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE disk scan for bad sectors Date: 17 Jul 1996 21:09:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4sjkqj$1cm@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4sj1uv$3a7@skydiver.jagunet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E emerys@confucius.omniscient.com (Sean Emery) wrote: > Sounds like EIDE disks don't automatically take care of themselves in > the event of bad sectors, so I prefer to take the preemptive approach. It's supposed to. If you see bad sectors, it's usually since the drive's bad sector table is full. You might have some luck with low-level reformatting, but this requires some special utility. (The old ST-506 command does only null out the sectors on IDE.) This way, the bad-sector tables will be re-arranged from scratch, so if only some portion of your disk was affected, you will get it into a normal life. Both bad144 and badsect aren't very excellent tools, to say it gently. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)