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From: pascal@netcom.com (Richard Childers)
Subject: Re: Disklabel/newfs -
Message-ID: <1993Mar11.065210.21948@netcom.com>
Organization: The Free State of Dis
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 06:52:10 GMT
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cg18fbi@icogsci2.ucsd.edu (Richard Dante) writes:
>DO NOT use BAD144 with IDE drives (and probably SCSI drives as well). IDE
>drives (well mybe not the really old ones) take care of bad blocks all by
>them-selves. This probably goes with SCSI drives too.
This should probably be documented in /etc/disktab ...
-- richard
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richard childers pascal@netcom.com