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From: pejn@cc.uow.edu.au (Paul Nulsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: 386bsd-0.1 install and disklabel on IDE
Summary: Should I reserve space for bad144 remapping on an IDE drive?
Keywords: disklabel, 386bsd
Message-ID: <1992Aug6.003014.11815@cc.uow.edu.au>
Date: 6 Aug 92 00:30:14 GMT
Organization: University Of Wollongong
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I have just installed 386bsd-0.1 on my 200 Mbyte IDE drive for the first
time using the install command on the Tiny 386bsd disk. Everything went very
smoothly - thank you very much to the Jolitz's and their helpers.

I am now considering a reinstallation in order to tidy up the disklabel.
Reading over earlier postings to this group I notice that several disktab
entries proposed for IDE drives give them the bad144 type sector forwarding
attribute and leave a few cylinders for this purpose.  On the other hand,
the install notes clearly state that "bad144 is never used with SCSI or IDE
disks..." I have had sectors go bad on an IDE drive (under DOS).

Can bad sectors be dynamically remapped on an IDE drive, and, if so, can the
wd driver cope with this? If not, is there any point in keeping a few tracks
spare just in case? Is it the case, as the install notes seem to imply, that
bad144 remapping cannot be used on an IDE drive?

Thank you
Paul Nulsen
pejn@wampyr.cc.uow.edu.au