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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!142.77.1.4!news.uunet.ca!gts!bdb From: bdb@GTS.Net (Bruce Becker) Subject: Re: badsect or bad144: device busy? Message-ID: <E75LIo.8o5.0.hotlips@GTS.Net> Organization: G.T.S., Toronto, Ontario References: <33240555.1747220@ghost.whirlpool.com> <5g1dse$10kg@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 20:42:24 GMT Lines: 23 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5642 In article <5g1dse$10kg@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>, Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de> wrote: | |1. the badsect manpage seems very complete to me. You might want to |shutdown to single user, and sync, before you start. |You can't access the raw partition associated with a mounted file system |in multi-user mode because of security level > 0 there. | |2. bad144 operates on whole disks (that would be /dev/rwd0d on the |netbsd/i386 port). I don't know wether it supports mixed NetBSD/otherOS- |disks... I'd guess, "no". I don't know wether NetBSD/i386 IDE disks support |it. It does if you lie to the install script & pretend you are using ESDI drives -- ,u, Bruce Becker Toronto, Ontario 1 416 699 1868 a /i/ Internet: bdb@gts.org Uucp: ...!gts!bdb `\o\-e Matter cannot be created or destroyed, nor can it _< /_ be returned without a receipt - physicists everywhere