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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
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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.

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