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From: greg@mobius.Viewlogic.COM (Gregory Larkin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: What does diskcheck do?
Message-ID: <1990Oct3.085332@mobius.Viewlogic.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 90 12:53:32 GMT
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Reply-To: greg@mobius.Viewlogic.COM (Gregory Larkin)
Organization: Viewlogic Systems, Inc., Marlboro, MA
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I am running V1.3 on my PC-AT and am trying to install
all of the OS and command sources on my HD so I can update
to V1.5.10.  While I was doing this I got an error message
like this:

Unrecoverable disk error device 3/6, block xxxx

I found a program called disk check and ran it on /dev/hd6.
This partition is 11200 blocks long.  A long time later, it
finished and it reported about 36 read errors like above.

I am assuming that these errors were due to bad sectors.  Does
diskcheck mark these sectors so that the controller doesn't try
to write them anymore?  If not, is there any way to do this?


Thanks for all help,
--
Greg Larkin (ASIC Engineer)
Viewlogic Systems, Inc. (The CAE Company)
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