Re: Bad IDE Drive

2000-10-13 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > IMO, WD went to pot years back their choice on concentrating on the low end > market doesn't help. Seagate's IDE drives seem to have been among the > slowest around. Years back started having better results with Maxtor and > then IBM came in wi

Re: Bad IDE Drive

2000-10-09 Thread David Kelly
Gary Kline writes: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:40:13PM -0400, Robert wrote: > > Hello, > > I used to own a Compaq Proliant 800/850 (one of them) with an > > internal > > RAID 5 array with about 4 8gb Seagate Baracude(SCSI UW). I had two of the > > drives fail on me after about 4 years, due t

Re: Bad IDE Drive

2000-10-06 Thread David Kelly
Craig Hawco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have recently fled from FreeBSD back into (ugh) windows because of a > minor drive problem. It seems that my drive has a few bad blocks, and I > know what they are. FreeBSD seems to try to write to the same bad sectors > every time, and keeps

Bad IDE Drive

2000-10-06 Thread Craig Hawco
Hello, I have recently fled from FreeBSD back into (ugh) windows because of a minor drive problem. It seems that my drive has a few bad blocks, and I know what they are. FreeBSD seems to try to write to the same bad sectors every time, and keeps printing errors that it can't write to t