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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!svin09.info.win.tue.nl!wzv.win.tue.nl!gvr.win.tue.nl!guido From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: bad144 problem? Date: 23 Aug 1993 16:54:49 GMT Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 24 Message-ID: <25asop$6h6@wzv.win.tue.nl> References: <CC3x77.I3s@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <1993Aug22.091223.24745@crash> NNTP-Posting-Host: gvr.win.tue.nl warelock@crash.cts.com (Tom Zacharoff) writes: >Peter da Silva (peter@NeoSoft.com) wrote: >: >: I seem to remember that there are patches out that let you put the bad sector >: table at other offsets, but I don't now if they're NetBSD-only or not. The >: ideal solution would be to make it a bad-sector partition like in System V, >: but I've been told (and I quite believe) that that would require WAY too much >: hacking to make it worthwhile in the near term. And long-term everyone's >: going to logically-perfect drives using SCSI or IDE (though that begs the >: question of what you do when you get NEW bad sectors... if the drive >: automatically remaps them you get invisible file-system corruption, and if >: it doesn't you still need bad sector handling). >I have an IDE drive. Does that mean I don't need to mess around with this >bad sector forwarding? Should my drive be doing all this automatically? Yes. You DON'T need the sf flag for IDE drives in the disktab. -Guido -- Guido van Rooij | Internet: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl Bisschopsmolen 16 | Phone: ++31.40.461433 5612 DS Eindhoven | ((12+144+20)+3*sqrt(4))/7 The Netherlands | +(5*11)=9^2+0