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From: warelock@crash.cts.com (Tom Zacharoff)
Subject: Re: bad144 question and extract problems
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 30 Aug 93 12:58:08 PDT
Message-ID: <1993Aug30.125808.24088@crash>
References: <AKH104.7.2C8148C0@email.cac.psu.edu>
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Karll The Ghoull (AKH104@email.cac.psu.edu) wrote:
:   I am trying to install 386bsd 0.1.  I NEED to use bad144 but
: whenever I do a "bad144 wd0 0" I get :  
:   "label: invalid argument"
:   "can't write disklabel to enable bad secctor handling by the drive"
: 
:   so..how do I get this to work?
: 

Try reading some of the posts about bad144 in another 386bsd.* newsgroup.
There is a thread somewhere that is actually getting some answers on the
subject. I used to have major problems with bad144 but now I have Netbsd 0.9
and installed it saying I have an st506 drive with no automatic bad sector 
remapping. It repartitions the disk slightly differently and bad144 actually
works reliably now. I have an ide drive and even though the install script
has an entry for ide I don't suggest using it if you need bad144 to work.