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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news.ac.net!news.serv.net!not-for-mail From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Subject: Re: Syquest EZ135 Date: 2 May 1996 22:58:27 -0700 Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4mc7a3$p4o@itchy.serv.net> References: <Dq0MCF.D3w@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <4m7muf$2e@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: itchy.serv.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18590 comp.periphs.scsi:51468 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage:58618 In article <4m7muf$2e@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>, Eric Wong <etw3@columbia.edu> wrote: >> - 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? >> For what it's worth: We had a syquest 270 which performed very badly running in a NEXTSTEP environment (ie, PC -based unix'ish). The vendor of course was totally confused because it wasn't a mac -or- dos/windows environment. After much hassle and many scsi block reassigns, they finally got us a working drive. (The platters were not the problem.) -- Sean T. Lamont, President / CEO, Abstract Software (ServNet) - Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development - email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson