marking bad blocks on a hard disk drive

[Vitali Malicky]

>I?m installing FreeBSD 4.8 on a 8GB HDD, but it has some bad sectors. How
can I tell FreeBSD not to use these bad sectors?

I'm afraid you can't... :(

this is from one of my previous posting
Re: Promise Ultra100 TX2 support broken?
From: "Vitali Malicky" <life at zone3000.net>
To: "Felix Deichmann" <f.dei at web.de>, <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
References: <3F1FDD81.1000904 at web.de>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:43:33 +0300


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After "clever" HDD's which "burn" the information about their bad blocks by
themselves came to the scene FreeBSD, AFAIK, stopped supporting such a
feature as searching and marking bad blocks....
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Good luck!


>Thanks in advance
de nada

>ALfonso Romero