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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ESDI drive woes
Date: 25 Aug 1995 18:46:52 +0200
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In article <id.MLSM1.JMD@nmti.com>, peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
|> OK, I'm trying for the umpteenth time to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 on an
|> ESDI drive.

Hehe - wouldn't it be nice to actually be able to use the sysinstall ?!

|> Apparently when Disk Manager sees a bad sector, it "spares" the whole track.

Don't. Is there any way to tell that thing to simply format the bad sector as
bad and leave the track alone ?

|> The controller is an HP special. It looks like a WD1007 but doesn't appear
|> to have a BIOS accessible through DEBUG, so I can't use the WD sector
|> sparing even if I wanted to.

The wd1007 bios, otoh, lets you format the drive and mark bad sectors as bad.

apart from the buggy sysinstall with problems concerning more than one BSD
slice (and thus with bootable wd0 > 1024 cyl), that should do the trick.

|> Help?

Dunno about Disk Manager, sorry.

Bernard