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From: giffin@fas.harvard.edu (Daniel B Giffin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can ... under FreeBSD?
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 16:56:44 -0500
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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In article <5ggpgt$6ut@uriah.heep.sax.de>, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
(Joerg Wunsch) wrote:
> 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.
I've got bad sectors too -- on an IDE disk. I've been struggling with
bad144, and managed I think to scan the disk and generate a list of bad
blocks ("bad144 -s"). Could anyone explain what happens next (the actual
bad144 command)? I think the bad list needs to be written to the disk
somehow? Or is the consensus that bad block means bad disk and I should
just chuck it? Thanks for any help.
daniel