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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nacamar.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: Help! Help! Help! Date: 19 Mar 1997 00:01:44 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5gnad8$7uh@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <33294C86.3B12@stu.ust.hk> <5gbmbq$5h4$1@news.clinet.fi> <3329F559.5C73@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:37279 Wong Chin Pang <ch_wcp@stu.ust.hk> wrote: > Can i mark all these bad sectors as in MS-DOS chkdsk or scandisk... such > that FreeBSD won't use those sectors...? Nope. This is software remapping only. If you're lucky, you can bug the manufacturer of the drive to get you a formatting tool. (No, don't try the formatters that were available in older BIOSes, they won't do anything but writing 0's over your drive.) Some manufacturers (Quantum for example) refuse to allow you to format the drive. Failing this, and if you still trust the drive enough to store data on it, you might give bad144 a try. Be warned however, it's not very user-friendly (to put it mildly). -- 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. ;-)