home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!news
- From: S_FAEHNLE@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Faehnle Thomas)
- Subject: HELP: Trouble installing LINUX on older HD
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.102303.10863@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de>
- Sender: news@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de (News Net)
- Organization: University of Ulm, Germany
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:23:03 GMT
- X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.25beta
- Lines: 17
-
- Hi LINUX-users!
-
- I got a *BIG* problem installing LINUX on an older 40 Meg MFM harddisk.
- On this HD some tracks are damaged---no problem, I thought, just specify
- them when formatting the disk with the BIOS utility. But when I want to
- install LINUX it ignores the bad-track-marks and so it's gonna hiccup
- every time he wants to write on a bad track (no wonder). I think You can
- imagine that this is extremely annoying....
-
- So this is my question: Does anyone of You ( <-- experienced LINUX-users )
- know how to mark bad tracks on a HD under LINUX ???
-
-
- Any answer would be a great help!
-
- Many thanks from a forward-looking LINUX newcomer.
- Bye, Thomas.
-