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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.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.sol.net!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.alt.net!newspost1.alt.net!usenet From: wwd@netheaven.com (Vacuo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Subject: Re: Syquest EZ135 Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 14:07:31 GMT Organization: Carbon-dating Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4mvict$s9d@tofu.alt.net> References: <Dq0MCF.D3w@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <4m7muf$2e@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19145 comp.periphs.scsi:51963 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage:59400 etw3@columbia.edu (Eric Wong) wrote: >In article <Dq0MCF.D3w@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote: >>I just got a Syquest EZ135 scsi removable disk drive. I had no >>trouble using it as a plain disk drive under FreeBSD, but the first >>cartridge I tried had a number of bad sectors. If I format it under >>DOS the program notes that it is mapping out the bad sectors. Can >>anyone tell me: >> >> - 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? >> >>-- Richard >> >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. > Regards...Eric Wong (etw3@columbia.edu) One dozen EZ-135 carts - ZERO bad sectors reported (or discovered). OS: W95, OS/2 Warp, Atari TOS. Vacuo (wwd@netheaven.com)