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- From: eddy@aludra.usc.edu (George Edmond Eddy)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: IDE and bad sectors.
- Date: 11 Sep 1992 16:25:10 -0700
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- How does one deal with bad sectors on an IDE hardrive?
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- After I had done the disklabel and newfs on a conners 3204, the
- disklabel showed a bad sector map (paraphrase) in the flags field
- and went into the endless reboot cycle. i used disklabel -e to
- clear the flags field, and everything proceeded fine, (this,
- however is wrong!). It was suggested that i run bad144, however
- i read the INSTALL.NOTES and know not to do this!
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- Now i suffer from magically corrupting cp, rm and mv commands.
- I will rebuild the commands mv 'em into bin, everything is fine
- for a while, then WHAM! they start core dumping, (in the call to
- rindex). i'll do a diff on the versions in the build directory
- vs. those in /bin, and diff claims there are differences????
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- So will some kind soul illuminate me as to how to handle bad sectors
- on an IDE drive? or should that flag be showing up at all???
-
- thank you!
-
- - rusty
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- eddy@usc.edu
- rusty@kirra.ema.rockwell.com
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