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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!xavier.cybersmith.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!news-m01.ny.us.ibm.net!news.biu.ac.il!news.tau.ac.il!usenet 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 Organization: Tel-Aviv University Computation Center Lines: 28 Message-ID: <318c838d.62308779@news.tau.ac.il> References: <Dq0MCF.D3w@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <4m7muf$2e@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip-104.tau.ac.il X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99d/32.182 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18746 comp.periphs.scsi:51591 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage:58826 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