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From: burgess@cynjut.infonet.net (Dave Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Bad blocks on my hard drive
Date: 1 Jan 1995 14:30:33 -0600
Organization: Configuration Management Svcs, Inc.
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Message-ID: <3e73d9$6jt@cynjut.infonet.net>
References: <D1p5H4.I45@world.std.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: cynjut.infonet.net
In article <D1p5H4.I45@world.std.com>,
Robert O Landry <umar@world.std.com> wrote:
>Is there any way to tell NetBSD not to write to those blocks? I'm trying
>to unpack some tar files and keep encountering the bad blocks.
The program you are looking for is 'bad144'. Read through the man pages
and if you still have questions, E-Mail me.
You will need to do a bunch to get this going, including a newfs and
re-disklabel with the correct (disktab, badtab, ???????) option in the
flags entry. Once you go through all of the pain of geting it set up
correctly, you should be all set.
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