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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!well!moon!pixar!markv From: markv@pixar.com (Mark VandeWettering) Subject: ESDI drives, disklabel, bad144 and ??? Message-ID: <markv.716769172@pixar> Sender: news@pixar.com (Usenet Newsmaster) Nntp-Posting-Host: taz.pixar.com Organization: Pixar -- Point Richmond, California Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1992 22:32:52 GMT Lines: 14 Now that my network problems are cured, I ran into some more problems. I am running on an Everex 486si with a 150Mbyte ESDI drive. This drive has many (96) bad sectors that are found when formatting the drive. Question: What is the proper procedure for marking these bad? The procedure I followed was to boot the fixit floppy and run bad144 wd 0 which netted me an error which said I couldn't write the disk label. I made the fixit floppy writable, but these didn't help any. Any clues? Email appreciated. Mark T. VandeWettering