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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!iglou!heathers.stdio.com!usenet From: risner@stdio.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: 2.0.5 and disk with BAD SECTORS no workie Date: 7 Jul 1995 05:34:16 GMT Organization: Image Tech Computing Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3tih0o$hi5@heathers.stdio.com> Reply-To: risner@stdio.com NNTP-Posting-Host: os2 X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 I got a disk with many bad sectors (30 to 60 I don't know but not a WHOLE lot) I try to format and I get "too many" only room for 126, but it does not print 126 bad ones (about 2 screens full only) so why does it bomb before actually finding 126? Is there a fix for this? 2.0 and back as well as NetBSD do not work AT all. Right now I have a 660 meg ESDI that is only formatted to 80 meg, since I can not seem to be able to make use of the rest of the disk at all. James Risner