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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!sdd.hp.com!network.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!crash!warelock From: warelock@crash.cts.com (Tom Zacharoff) Subject: Re: Format (for netbsd): where is it??? Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA Date: 07 Sep 93 19:30:17 PDT Message-ID: <1993Sep07.193017.11923@crash> References: <CCv3rq.1DG@speakez.com> Lines: 17 I think I may have the solution (but I haven't tried it yet). I think what I need to do is use the bios media analysis (ami bios) and formatting commands to beat up the hard disk and mark all the bad spots. I'm guessing that my ide drive will then only report good, working sectors to netbsd. I will loose some space (about 2 megs according to my calculations) but if this works I will be able to handle new errors with bad144 bad sector forwarding (which does appear to work fine now). Someone sent me mail saying that scsi AND ide drives are supposed to make their media appear as flawless. I think scsi is supposed to handle this all by itself but I think with ide you have to do it yourself. If netbsd looks to the bios for what it can use on the ide drive, I will be a happy camper indeed! :-) If not, I will seriously consider getting a scsi drive. (Even though there are A LOT of ide drives out there!) I think netbsd was probably designed for a scsi world. I could be wrong (doubtful). ;-)