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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!lynx.aba.net.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ancient RLL drives with bad spots Date: 5 Sep 1996 07:16:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <50luon$php@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <19960902213332.richw@yank.kitchener.on.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E richw@yank.kitchener.on.ca (Rich Wales) wrote: > These drives do =not= implement the BAD144 sector-remapping protocol, as > far as I'm aware, so I can't hide the problem that way. bad144 is not a matter of the drive, but a matter of the driver. The `wd' driver does support it, but there used to be a lot of problem reports back in the old days when people was still actively using MFM/RLL/ESDI drives. Give it a try. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)