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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 ???
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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1992 22:32:52 GMT
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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