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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!panix!news.columbia.edu!etw3 From: etw3@columbia.edu (Eric Wong) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Subject: Re: Syquest EZ135 Date: Wed, 01 May 96 12:54:31 GMT Organization: Columbia University Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4m7muf$2e@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> References: <Dq0MCF.D3w@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup202.cc.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18522 comp.periphs.scsi:51406 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage:58476 In article <Dq0MCF.D3w@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote: >I just got a Syquest EZ135 scsi removable disk drive. I had no >trouble using it as a plain disk drive under FreeBSD, but the first >cartridge I tried had a number of bad sectors. If I format it under >DOS the program notes that it is mapping out the bad sectors. Can >anyone tell me: > > - Are bad sectors to be expected on these disks? > - Can they be dealt with at the scsi level? If so, how? > - If not, how should I deal with them in FreeBSD? bad144? > >-- Richard > This is the first time I have heard of bad sectors on one of these disks. I have 4 of them myself and none of them have bad sectors. I am afraid that I do not use FreeBSD so I cannot comment on how the operating system is going to take it. Good luck. Regards...Eric Wong (etw3@columbia.edu)