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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
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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)