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Gebran Krikor
Aug 25, 1991, 11:04:14 AM8/25/91
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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?
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
Aug 26, 1991, 1:33:51 PM8/26/91
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In article <1991Aug25....@eng.umd.edu> voy...@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?
>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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