Re: Bad blocks on IDE drive (newbie question)

From: Matt Bostock (matt_at_mattbostock.com)
Date: 06/28/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:03:10 +0100

Tim Judd wrote:
> As I recall, the bad blocks are marked by the format process.
FAT/FAT32
> marks in it's File Allocation Table (hence, FAT) that sector xxxx is
> bad. The MBR marks "Partition one starts here, ends here and is of this
> filesystem." I doubt the OS has anything to do with it. I think the OS
> asks to write a file to disk, and the Filesystem checks the FAT before
> writing to a bad cluster.
>
> I have absolutely NO CLUE how OBSD marks bad clusters/blocks/sectors.
> I'd get a new drive to put OBSD on anyway, but you said you can't get
> one now. OK, so get a used one from salvation army, go to
> http://www.streetprices.com/ or the like for inexpensive devices. Don't
> forget to check http://www.resellerratings.com/ to check their repitoire
> before laying money down.
>
> HTH

Thanks for the info Tim. Perhaps OBSD would have checked for bad blocks
upon formatting my drive during the install?

Thanks,
Matt :)

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