--- Eric Jacoboni <jaco@teaser.fr> wrote:
> >>>>> "Matthias" == Matthias Buelow
> <mkb@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> writes:
> 
> Matthias> Eric Jacoboni writes:
> >>  As NetBSD doesn't seem to allow such a tweak,
> 
> Matthias> bad144(8), badsect(8)
> 
> Oops... ;-)
> 
> Anyway, i'm not enough confident with disk internals
> to understand the
> subtleties of these pages (i even don't understand
> how to run these
> commands and what they're supposed to do for my
> situation)... In fact,
> i don't want to search for bad sectors: i just want
> to mark as bad the
> only one that make NetBSD complains (it's always the
> same):
> 
> wd1a: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 997655
> of 997648-997663 
> (wd1 bn 997718; cn 989 tn 12 sn 50)
> 
> I've downloaded the "Disk Diag" from Seagate but
> it's a rather curious
> tool: it just says my disk is dead, without further
> explanations (and
> i'm currently working on this disk. While it
> produces sometimes these
> errors that slow down the system, it still works).
> Not found any
> low-level formatter. I think i better have to save
> up some Euros to
> buy another disk (but no more Seagate...).
> 
> -- 
> Éric Jacoboni, né il y a 1315175269 secondes

In my experience, Seagate makes fine disks, certainly
better than some of the lower priced stuff like Maxtor
or Western Digital. IBM and Seagate are the best
(provided you buy the right model!).

Andy

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