Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!usenet From: mmead@neon.Glock.COM (matthew c. mead) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Subject: Re: Syquest EZ135 Date: 02 May 1996 18:28:47 GMT Organization: Glock Telecommunications Lines: 34 Message-ID: <MMEAD.96May2142847@neon.Glock.COM> References: <Dq0MCF.D3w@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <4m7muf$2e@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: neon.glock.com In-reply-to: etw3@columbia.edu's message of Wed, 01 May 96 12:54:31 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18566 comp.periphs.scsi:51438 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage:58563 In article <4m7muf$2e@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> etw3@columbia.edu (Eric Wong) writes: > In article <Dq0MCF.D3w@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote: > >I just got a Syquest EZ135 scsi removable disk drive. I had no > >trouble using it as a plain disk drive under FreeBSD, but the first > >cartridge I tried had a number of bad sectors. If I format it under > >DOS the program notes that it is mapping out the bad sectors. Can > >anyone tell me: > > - Are bad sectors to be expected on these disks? > > - Can they be dealt with at the scsi level? If so, how? > > - If not, how should I deal with them in FreeBSD? bad144? > This is the first time I have heard of bad sectors on one of these > disks. I have 4 of them myself and none of them have bad sectors. I am > afraid that I do not use FreeBSD so I cannot comment on how the > operating system is going to take it. Good luck. Hmm. I do use my EZ135 under FreeBSD, but I have never seen bad sectors with it (even when I've formatted it under dos). I don't know how to deal with them, but if I were you, I'd return that media. It's got either a 5 year of Lifetime warranty on it - you shouldn't have to put up with bad sectors. -matt -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@Glock.COM http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/