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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.localnet.com!newsrelay.courtave.net!news.dwx.com!legba.synergy.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!cats.ucsc.edu!banshee From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: bad144 help needed Date: 9 May 1996 08:59:30 GMT Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4msc5i$m9o@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> References: <1996May8.204119.4155@hobbit> NNTP-Posting-Host: ese.ucsc.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) I think bad144 should be removed. I don't know of anyone who has ever gotten it to work in anything resembling a sane manner. The concept is a simple one: use one track of the disk to store a list of sectors that should never be read; remapping in highlevel software the bad sector to one of these saved sectors. But somehow the only times I've tried to do this, I've wound up pulling out my hair. I dumped the drive and got an IDE drive. IDE and SCSI drives should never do this. They should remap bad sectors by themselves. And when they run out of space to do so and really start whining, the drive should probally be dumped. -- The Wailer at the Gates of Dawn | banshee@resort.com | Just who ARE you calling a FROOFROO Head? | | DoD#0667 "Just a friend of the beast." | banshee@cats.UCSC.EDU | 2,3,5,7,13,17,19,31,61,89,107,127,521,607....| |