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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!sunic!chalmers.se!dtek.chalmers.se!dxper From: dxper@dtek.chalmers.se (Per Anders Olausson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Problem with bad sectors on SCSI drive Message-ID: <12813@chalmers.se> Date: 18 Jul 92 11:53:52 GMT Sender: news@chalmers.se Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden Lines: 34 Hi! Having realised that the new release of BSD is a bit bigger than the last one I thought I'd get my scsi floppy drive up and running. (so that I might use Mr shoehorn as someone put it...) But ofcourse that was easier said than done. Normally I presume SCSI drives should be error free, but since this actually is a *floppy* drive I presume it doesn't support an error free environment. Essentially what happens is that it does let me disklabel it but when I do a newfs it encounters a bad sector and exits. When I do a fsck it complains too and does a floating point exception and core dumps. I can ofcourse claim that the drive is bad144 compliant but bad144 itself does not permit itself to be run on SCSI drives. eeeh. Hrmpf. I hmmm...just re-did a newfs because I thought I'd check out if badsect could be used (I didn't think it could be used due to the filesystem not having been initialised properly at first...) and it worked. I have bad144 turned on now, is that it? Then, why can't bad144 let me run it? Anyway, is disk type removable supported in this release? I defined mine as such and it works but I don't know what difference it is to the kernel or the drivers as opposed to winchester or floppy. Is this one in a million or? Anyone have a clue about this? pao -- -------------------------------Andrew Olausson-------------------------------- --------------------------Unemployed Unix Specialist-------------------------- ------------------------------pao@cd.chalmers.se------------------------------ -------------------------------pa-ola@proxxi.se-------------------------------