Re: badblocks on sata drive

2009-03-10 Thread Marco
thank you guys, never knew about that feature in modern harddrives. so i rly have to replace the drive. best regards, marco Daniel Lannstrom wrote: > If a modern hard drive begins to let bad blocks through it's internal > block relocation mechanics have failed. I recommend to take backup on > eve

Re: badblocks on sata drive

2009-03-01 Thread Daniel Lannstrom
If a modern hard drive begins to let bad blocks through it's internal block relocation mechanics have failed. I recommend to take backup on everthing on that disk because this is usually a sign that the disk will die shortly. On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 07:17:44PM +0100, Marco wrote: > hej list, >

Re: badblocks on sata drive

2009-03-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
during dd tests i encounter hardware problems with my harddisk. is there a way to mark parts of the hdd as "bad" so those are not used anymore? not much. you may label it the way it will skip that part. anyway - sata/IDE drives has in-hardware bad block remapping. if you see bad blocks there

badblocks on sata drive

2009-03-01 Thread Marco
hej list, during dd tests i encounter hardware problems with my harddisk. is there a way to mark parts of the hdd as "bad" so those are not used anymore? best regards, marco ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma