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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!utcsri!cdf.toronto.edu!marvin.cdf.toronto.edu!jdd From: jdd@cdf.toronto.edu (John DiMarco) Subject: NetBSD 1.1 i386 bad144 confusion Message-ID: <95Dec19.211653edt.9510@marvin.cdf.toronto.edu> Originator: root@marvin Sender: news@cdf.toronto.edu (Usenet News) Nntp-Posting-Host: marvin Organization: University of Toronto Computing Disciplines Facility Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 02:16:47 GMT Content-Length: 663 Lines: 16 Having discovered a couple of bad sectors on the (IDE) hard disk I'm using, I tried to remap them using "bad144 -a wd0 NNN NNN". That seemed to work, and "bad144 wd0" lists the bad sectors I've specified, but they're still apparently being used by the filesystem. Any ideas? Please send responses via email. I'll be happy to post a summary of the responses to this newsgroup. Regards, John -- John DiMarco <jdd@cdf.toronto.edu> Office: EA201B Computing Disciplines Facility Systems Manager Phone: 416-978-1928 University of Toronto Fax: 416-978-1931 http://www.cdf.toronto.edu/~jdd