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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!gail.ripco.com!news.wwa.com!news.ucdavis.edu!not-for-mail From: Michael White <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Subject: Re: bad144: bad sector file contains duplicates. Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 18:21:47 -0800 Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 23 Message-ID: <32C878BB.41C6@ucdavis.edu> References: <32C70BDD.41C6@ucdavis.edu> <5a9f16$bf4@Germany.EU.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: halfdome.engr.ucdavis.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP20) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33397 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage:85911 Bernard Steiner wrote: > > In article <32C70BDD.41C6@ucdavis.edu>, Michael White <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu> writes: > |> I ran bad144 (and re-directed the output to a file) and got: > > I don't see why you would want to do that, unless your > drive doesn't handle bad blocks automagically, which I doubt. I did it because my stupid system keeps crashing and I am trying to find the cause. > > BTW I am the only person *I* know who still owns disks that *need* bad144 > support, these being two grubby old ESDI drives (but they do their job and > work, as opposed to e.g. the fast wide SCSI 2GB on the ahb1740 that refuses to > work for me with WB cache on an old Mylex MB with an I486DX4/100). > > Bernard I am just trying to use any available tool to figure out what is going wrong. -- - Mike mdwhite@ucdavis.edu