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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Disk errors installing 2.0.5R
Date: 22 Jun 1995 13:12:19 +0200
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Paul van der Zwan <paulz@olivetti.nl> wrote:
>The disk is a Micropolis 1558 ESDI ( 1224 cyl 15 hds 35 sect.) connected
>to a WD1007 controller which remaps it to 814 cyl 15 hds 51 sect which is
>also the geometry DOS uses.
>When I enable badblock detection it detect a bad block every 35 blocks
>which looks very suspicious to me. Even after a low level format it keeps
>finding bad blocks every 35 blocks.
You've got not perchance your drive/controller configured to do
bad-block remapping of its own (``spare sector'')?
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)