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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!rochester!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: help! 386bsd bad144 questions Message-ID: <IeaM=lO00WAtM6UbdN@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 25 Aug 92 00:46:41 GMT Organization: Freshman, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 14 I am trying to install 386bsd on my 386/16 (a Mitsubishi system with 6 megs). I have a 70 meg CDC Wren II drive (it is an MFM based drive), which has quite a few bad blocks (nothing out of the ordinary, but a few more then BSD seems to be happy with). Anyway, some of the blocks seem to be in the inode table (when formatting the entire drive for bsd inodes 3250 -> 3253 are bad). So, I have two questions: 1) Is it possible to use bsd with bad blocks in the inode table. 2) I think the answer is yes, that I just have to mark them with bad144. I have had little luck getting bad144 to work at all. Usaully I get messages saying that the label is bad, but I am unsure as to what that means. Also, how do sector and cylinder numbers map to ufs blocks? thanks, alex