I wonder if it would be possible to implement under freeebsd an interesting
feature
which can be found in linux:
mkfs.ext2(8)
...
-c
Check the device for bad blocks before creating the file system. If this
option is specified twice, then a slower, destructive, read-write test is
used
I think this 8,4 quantum is old enough to not contain so called spare
sectors. So 1 bad sector means there is really only 1 bad
sector. Anyway i still cant understand, why UFS cant cope with bad blocks,
but 1000 year old FAT, or the newer NTFS
can easyli get through the problem.
The other
I have 2 small problems about installing FreeBSD.
1) My HDD is a 8,4 Gb quantum, which has 1 bad sector laying on it
somewhere. I created ntfs partition
on it, and format detected that sector, and marked as bad so there was no
problem of data loss because writing
to that sector. Now, if i fdisk
Oh, i forgot to tell mye system specs:
AMD 2000+, Geforce 4 Ti4200, MSI KT3 Ultra2, Sb live
The same problem occured on a Cel300 + Riva TNT2, Intel LX mainboard.
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Hi!
I installed a clean FreeBSD 4.10 Release a few days ago. After finishing
the install, i downloaded the latest nvidia driver
(NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-6113.tar.gz) at once. Unzipped to /tmp and typed
make install. It worked flawlessly.
The module loaded correctly (kldstat), I edited the X
