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From: abenamar@post.tau.ac.il (Dani Ben-Amar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: Syquest EZ135
Date: Sun, 05 May 1996 10:33:00 GMT
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On Wed, 01 May 96 12:54:31 GMT, etw3@columbia.edu (Eric Wong) 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?
>>
>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.

Well...

Gotta disappoint you. I have ordered about 20 EZ cartridges and only 1
of them had a bad sector and just one.
I wouldn't buy any more media from that source if I were you.
They shouldn't come with any disk.

Bye,

	Dani Ben-Amar
	abenamar@post.tau.ac.il

Bye,

   Dani Ben-Amar
   abenamar@post.tau.ac.il
   http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2480