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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: /sbin/badsect
Date: 18 May 1995 23:27:47 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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valko@cyberspace.com (Jack Valko) wrote:
] Does anyone know if /sbin/badsect can be used to map out badsectors on
] mounted partitions? I have a bad disk sector in sd0a and it seems like
] I'm going to need to boot from a floppy to fix this.
]
] Does anyone have a procedure in hand that they could post on how to
] accomplish this?
SCSI does this for you automatically.
If you have a SCSI device (the sd0a you refer to is a SCSI drive
name) that has a bad sector, then it is already fixed.
If it isn't, you're drive is on the verge of going to hell in a
handbasket, since you must be out of replacements.
For WD drives, specificly MFM, RLL, and ESDI, the newest code
handles BAD144 remapping; there is a scan and a program for
entering the sectors as part of the install.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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