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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!aw2t+ From: aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Alex R.N. Wetmore) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: bad144 questions Message-ID: <UeZlU4600VoR89vUk3@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 22 Aug 92 20:45:56 GMT Article-I.D.: andrew.UeZlU4600VoR89vUk3 Organization: Freshman, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 14 I have been problems getting 386bsd to work on my system (as outlined in a previous post). Anyway, I think that it is linked to bad blocks on my HD. I was wondering if anyone could explain how blocks on the file system map to cylinders and heads, or if there is a way to make newfs read the bad block table for my hd before booting it. There are bad blocks early enough in the device to get into the inode tables. Any suggestions on how to get it working would be very helpful. I am looking forward to getting the system working (I just trashed linux for 386bsd, and am missing unix, might switch to mach if I can't get 386bsd working). thanks again, alex