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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:31961 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1126 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!julienas!babbage!cosmos.imag.fr!cosmos!schaefer From: schaefer@imag.imag.fr (Arno Schaefer) Subject: ESDI Disks (was Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box?) Message-ID: <1993Mar27.201319.12742@imag.fr> Sender: news@imag.fr Nntp-Posting-Host: deimos Organization: Institut Imag, Grenoble, France References: <SCT.93Mar23224452@belnahua.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <mafm.732963822@warabi> <1ou6sjINNh23@aludra.usc.edu> <C4IpyB.659@sugar.neosoft.com> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1993 20:13:19 GMT Lines: 36 In article <C4IpyB.659@sugar.neosoft.com>, peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: |> In article <1ou6sjINNh23@aludra.usc.edu> jimmyhua@aludra.usc.edu (Jimmy Huang) writes: |> > I recall reading somewhere, that with ESDI HDs, Linux is *Supposed* to |> > work based on the specs of ESDI, but it sometimes refuses to work |> > correctly. |> |> Can someone verify this? I'm planning on trying out Linux after I get my BBS |> moved over to 386BSD from System V. |> -- Well, if you don't have a *really* peculiar Controller, it should work ok with ESDI. I'm using Linux happily with my ESDI-Drive without a problem. You must however be aware of the facts that - ESDI Drives don't map out their errors by themselves, so you must use the '-c' option when making the filesystem to check for bad sectors. - if you have a DOS-Partition mounted with the DOS-Filesystem, you may have difficulties when reading/writing files to locations with bad sectors. The filesystem will report an error and truncate the file, because a proper handling of this is difficult and not yet implemented. This is however not a big problem since you can write the file again to another location and then clean things up under DOS (or the other way around: copy the file to another location under DOS, then reread it from Linux). Best Regards, Arno -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arno Schaefer ENSIMAG, 2e Annee Email: schaefer@ensibull.imag.fr Tel.: (33) 76 51 79 95 :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------