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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!mcsun!sun4nl!relay.philips.nl!cnplss5!rooij From: rooij@mozart.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: badsect not working. Message-ID: <1993Mar11.102133.587@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> Date: 11 Mar 93 10:21:33 GMT References: <1nlk33$is@tricky.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl> Sender: news@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl (USENET News System) Organization: Philips Communications & Processing Services, Eindhoven Lines: 12 Nntp-Posting-Host: mozart jim@wft.stack.urc.tue.nl (Jim Rump,,040-518599,040-518599) writes: >Hi, >I am trying to use a IDE-disk with badsectors. The badsect command does not >work for me. When I use badsect as described in the manualpage, I get >a "Device busy". What could I be doing wrong here?. An IDE drive remaps its bad sectors transparently to the outside world, so you should never use bad144 with those disks. -Guido