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From: bdb@GTS.Net (Bruce Becker)
Subject: Re: badsect or bad144: device busy?
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Organization: G.T.S., Toronto, Ontario
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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 20:42:24 GMT
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In article <5g1dse$10kg@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>,
Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
|
|1. the badsect manpage seems very complete to me. You might want to
|shutdown to single user, and sync, before you start.
|You can't access the raw partition associated with a mounted file system
|in multi-user mode because of security level > 0 there.
|
|2. bad144 operates on whole disks (that would be /dev/rwd0d on the 
|netbsd/i386 port). I don't know wether it supports mixed NetBSD/otherOS-
|disks... I'd guess, "no". I don't know wether NetBSD/i386 IDE disks support 
|it.


	It does if you lie to the install script &
	pretend you are using ESDI drives


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