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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7645 ; Mon, 25 Jan 93 12:19:20 EST Xref: sserve comp.org.eff.talk:11907 comp.unix.bsd:10343 comp.unix.wizards:28334 comp.org.usenix:3189 Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.wizards,comp.org.usenix Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!netcomsv!netcom.com!lachman From: lachman@netcom.com (Hans Lachman) Subject: Re: Misc problems Message-ID: <1993Jan23.021430.18798@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom References: <1jdibnINN52u@usenet.pa.dec.com> <1993Jan19.224307.22194@prl.dec.com> <C14zIy.2I5@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:14:30 GMT Lines: 53 In article <C14zIy.2I5@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> swong@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Stanley Wong) writes: > >1) I am having some problems with my ESDI disk. I have a Western Digital >controller WD1007 and a Maxtor XT8380E 330 meg drive. My problems are with bad >blocks. Firstly when I installed, I got a default partition setup for me >that I don't really want, but I can live with it until the Future Domain >SCSI driver is released. Anyways it got disklabeled without the sf param >and I get a bunch of read errors at various points. Here is my disklabel: > ># /dev/rwd0d: >type: ESDI >disk: >label: >flags: >bytes/sector: 512 >sectors/track: 63 >tracks/cylinder: 16 >sectors/cylinder: 1008 >cylinders: 672 >rpm: 3600 >interleave: 1 >trackskew: 0 >cylinderskew: 0 >headswitch: 0 # milliseconds >track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds >drivedata: 0 > >3 partitions: ># size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] > a: 665280 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 659) > b: 10000 665868 swap # (Cyl. 660*- 670*) > c: 676368 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 670) > >By doing a bad144 wd0 I get this: > >bad block information at sector 677313 in /dev//rwd0d: >cartridge serial number: 0(10) >sn=0, cn=0, tn=0, sn=0 >sn=20163, cn=20, tn=0, sn=3 >sn=81360, cn=80, tn=11, sn=27 >sn=81409, cn=80, tn=12, sn=13 >sn=661856, cn=656, tn=9, sn=41 > >... Don't let Apple get a hold of this post. They already have ads about how much better it is to use a Macintosh than to wrestle with Microsoft's SYSTEM.INI and CONFIG.SYS files. They would have a field day with this. (-: No serious flames please :-) Hans Lachman lachman@netcom.com