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From: gclarkii@NeoSoft.com (Gary Clark II)
Subject: Re: ARGH! FreeBSD 1.0 and ST506 type drives.
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services -- +1 713 684 5969
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1993 06:10:28 GMT
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Hi,
When the install script asks you if your drive supports bad-sector forwarding,
what do you tell it? If you tell it yes, it assumes that the drive will
handle all bad sectors and not create the bad144 table. To find out if
your drive is setup to do bad144 mapping, issue a bad144 wd0 or wd1 (depends
on the drive) and it should come back with the bad sector table. When you
get a hard error (Soft errors are un-fixable at this point) copy down
the hardware Block Number (not the fs fn). Then to put this into the
table, do a bad144 -a wd? BN. Then issue a bad144 wd? to make sure it
got it in.
I hope this helps.
Gary Clark II
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