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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de!ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de!pgdga From: pgdga@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Dirk Gajewski) Subject: Bad sector hd problem??? Message-ID: <pgdga.7.0@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Lines: 24 Sender: root@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Operator) Organization: tu-clausthal.de Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 07:53:15 GMT I have a 80 Meg disk with about 240 kb of bad sectors scattered all over the disc. I can install 386BSD on the hard disk and it boots just fine (no messages about bad sectors). When it comes to extracting the bin01.* files after copying them on my machine, it says that there are several corrupted files. However, I have successfully read and extracted the bin01.* files on an other machine having a disc without any bad sectors, thus the bin01.* files I have are correct. Is my problem related to the bad sectors on the hd?? I could not use bad144, because no messages like "wd0: hard read error writing fsbn ..........." occured during the installation procedure. I heard about a new wd.c driver which is supposed to do bad sector mapping in a better way than the original wd.c. Is there somewhere a compiled kernel with this new wd.c driver out in netland? Any comments are appreciated. Dirk INTERNET:pgdga@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de Institute of Geophysics, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, F.R. Germany phone: +49-5323-723001 fax:+49-5323-722320