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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!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: Can ... under FreeBSD? Date: 16 Mar 1997 12:36:45 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5ggpgt$6ut@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <332B35D4.408A@stu.ust.hk> 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 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37214 Wong Chin Pang <ch_wcp@stu.ust.hk> wrote: > Harddisk problem due to bad sectors which cause serious errors when > booting and halting the system (...can't write to particular sectors). > > Can i fix it by "bad144" or other command? What kind of harddisk? The sd (SCSI disk) driver doesn't support bad144, but most SCSI disks support automatic remapping if told so. The wd (ST-506 etc.) driver supports bad144. Setting it up might be painful since only very few diehard people still seem to use it. -- 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. ;-)