On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:05:39 +0100, Michaël Grünewald <michaelgrunew...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > (I feel sorry for the very poor english I demonstrated in the message I > wrote this morning: I was in a hurry!)
Don't mind, many user here aren't native speakers, but are still completely good to understand. > I have backups of the data contained in the broken, so the data on this > disc are not a concern. So then: Goodbye, cruel hard disk, it's over... and let it fly. :-) > I have however a question: How do I verify that > a hard-drive is accurately working if its firmware will hide the bad > sectors as long as possible? I think the smartctl program from ports/smartmontools is a good tool for such verification. As far as I understood, it can read internal error logs from the firmware. > As the other contributors join their voices > to yours, I will replace the faulty disk ASAP. Best choice, especially because you don't need to run the hard disk in order to get the data back. Oh backups are such a fine thing, I wish I had some. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"