marking bad blocks on a hard disk drive

Alfonso Romero ibac at prodigy.net.mx
Thu Jul 24 12:48:01 PDT 2003


The funny thing is that the trouble shows up when I try to install
mysql3.23.57 server, I installed postfix2.13, apache2.0.47 and all the
required stuff, and it didn´t complain till I got to mysql.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Vitali Malicky" <life at zone3000.net>
To: "Alfonso Romero" <ibac at prodigy.net.mx>; "freebsd-questions"
<freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: marking bad blocks on a hard disk drive


>
>
> >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
>
>
> ===================
> 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....
> ===================
>
> Good luck!
>
>
> >Thanks in advance
> de nada
>
> >ALfonso Romero
>
>
>




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