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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing on an ESDI disk Date: 16 Dec 1996 13:34:38 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <593j5e$efa@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <d7g21fxr34.fsf@thoth.cs.ohiou.edu> <58mp94$atv@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <58sad0$5pu@news.psc.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4997 ksulliva@psc.edu (Kevin Sullivan) wrote: > Odd. I ran NetBSD 1.0 and 1.1 on a machine with 2 ESDI disks and had > few problems. When I low-level formatted the drives, my ESDI > controller gave me the option of leaving a spare sector per track for > remapping bad sectors; I did that and never had to mess with bad144. Feel happy about this. It wasn't that unusual for an ESDI drive to have more than just one bad sector per track, and that's the point where the spare sector per track model stops working. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j