On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 04:59:11PM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote:
>
> I thought FreeBSD had an option on install to run a bad block scan on a
> drive? Just installed (4.0-RELEASE) and noticed it wasn't there. Any
> specific reason...or maybe a reference page that explains. Thanks in
> advance.
Bad block management was removed in 4.0. All modern drives (ATA and
SCSI) do hardware bad block management and no one wanted to maintain the
old code so it was killed. The general feeling is that if your disk
generates errors it has run out of replacement sectors and thus is
dying and should be replaced.
-- Brooks
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