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Gebran Krikor  
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 More options 25 Aug 1991, 21:14
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From: voya...@eng.umd.edu (Gebran Krikor)
Date: 25 Aug 91 15:04:14 GMT
Local: Sun 25 Aug 1991 16:04
Subject: Bad blocks
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I am trying to install Minix on a 286 with a hard drive that has a
large number of bad sectors on it. When I ran the Minix readall, as
suggested in the manual, it only found one of the sectors. This is
rather disturbing, as when I finished the installation, cpp worked
fine for the first 10 test programs, and then was reported to not be
an executable file. So, is there a program which will do a complete
test of my hard drive and mark sectors bad, or do I need to write
my own?

Gebran

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Kenneth J. Hendrickson  
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 More options 26 Aug 1991, 19:54
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From: k...@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson)
Date: 26 Aug 91 17:33:51 GMT
Local: Mon 26 Aug 1991 18:33
Subject: Re: Bad blocks
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In article <1991Aug25.150414.6...@eng.umd.edu> voya...@eng.umd.edu (Gebran Krikor) writes:
>So, is there a program which will do a complete
>test of my hard drive and mark sectors bad, or do I need to write
>my own?

diskcheck will do a complete test of your hard drive.
badblocks will mark bad sectors.
        (by creating a file that "uses" these sectors).

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