Re: Freebsd 4.0 crashes

[Bruce Campbell <bruce.campbell at ripe.net>]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Brian Candler wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 04:23:13PM -0000, Agbenya Adotey wrote:
> > ad2: HARD READ ERROR
>
> Looks like a head crash, or some other physical failure of the hard drive
> itself. I'd suggest you replace the hard drive, reinstall, mount the old
> hard drive as a second one, and try to recover whatever data you can.
>
> The old drive might be usable after reformatting (if it has been able to
> remap the bad sectors) but personally I wouldn't trust it.

You can get diskcheckd(8) (/usr/ports/sysutils/diskcheckd) to scan your
disk, then use badsect(8) and fsck(8) to tag them as bad as per the man
pages.  However, you do want to consider the drive as 'suspect'.

--==--
Bruce.


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