Accessing IDE disk with bad sectors freezes the box

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 16:24:27 +0300
Hi Soren,

I have a disk with lot of bad sectors.  When working with it on
an AMD64 box running 6-CURRENT, accessing bad areas just freezes
the box completely, without any diagnostics.  The same disk when
plugged into another i386 box running 4-STABLE works properly by
issuing errors from the kernel, and reporting EIO to userland.

Is there something I can do to try to mitigate this issue?


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru_at_FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
Received on Wed May 11 2005 - 11:24:23 UTC

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