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From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386BSD] Bad block handling?
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Date: 10 Feb 93 02:49:08 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command
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Hi,

  I have an ancient Seagate ST-4096 80Meg MFM drive with LOTS of bad blocks.
After reading the "Unofficial 386BSD Bug List", I see that v0.1 has a problem
with bad block handling (INST011) in that reads of multiple blocks fails if the
first block is re-mapped due to a bad block.  Question: 

      Is there a version of the kernel on a "Tiny 386BSD-like" rawriteable
      floppy with the patch to fix this?

Any suggestions for how to deal with this (I still don't have 386BSD on my
harddisk - need to run bad144 first) would be appreciated!  I will get SCSI
for home use when I can afford it, but the MFM is my only alternative at
work.

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  phil perucci                       | "Any opinions expressed are my views, 
  dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil |  not the position of any organization"
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