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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!sun4nl!Utrecht.NL.net!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!yedi!wilko From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ancient RLL drives with bad spots Organization: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands Message-ID: <DxFC80.3nI@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <19960902213332.richw@yank.kitchener.on.ca> <50luon$php@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 17:21:36 GMT Lines: 24 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >richw@yank.kitchener.on.ca (Rich Wales) wrote: >> These drives do =not= implement the BAD144 sector-remapping protocol, as >> far as I'm aware, so I can't hide the problem that way. >bad144 is not a matter of the drive, but a matter of the driver. The >`wd' driver does support it, but there used to be a lot of problem >reports back in the old days when people was still actively using >MFM/RLL/ESDI drives. >Give it a try. Whatever you do: make sure the low-level formatting on the drive is done without spare sectoring enabled. Most cards report eg 35 sec/tr although they already reserved 1 of the 35 sectors for the spare sector. I've made a couple of ESDI cards to work in this way. YMMV... Wilko