>On Thu, 13 May 1999, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>
>> > > On Thu, 13 May 1999, Dave Schmitt wrote:
>> > >
>> >
>> > That's what I was afraid of. We had a major power outage or 2 last
>> > weekend... I found something called "badsect" which might help me in
>>/sbin,
>> > but I'm leery to use it until I understand better just what's going on.
>>
>> If you're really getting a lot, get a new disk. Drives tend to go down
>> hill fast once they start.
>>
>
>In principle, I agree, but if this is just a hobby machine, maybe not. It
>depends on why the errors occurred. I've used several small 'bad' drives
>dug out of the trash for years with few problems. A low level format may
>be in order, however.

Then my question is....how do we low-level format under BSD? I've recently
had similar troubles with my Alpha's hard drive. The only solution that I
came up with was to use FWB's hard disk toolkit under MacOS, since they
were SCSI disks.


Mike
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