Subject: Re: Bad sectors
To: Christian von Kleist <cvk@zybx.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/22/2003 21:51:15
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 12:51:31AM -0400, Christian von Kleist wrote:
> 
>      In the process of setting up my notebook to run NetBSD I noticed that
> every time I run fsck there are warnings of unrecoverable errors on
> wd0, specifically that in wd0e there are bad sectors.  I had hoped my
> drive's firmware would be clever enough to create a forwarding table
> on its own to correct bad sectors, but that doesn't seem to be the
> case.

If the error happens on reads, the drive won't remap them.
Try to write to the sector to have the drive remap them.
Of course this will damage your filesystem

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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