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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: bad block scan crashes -- help! Date: 18 Apr 1997 19:59:57 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5j8jrt$5mt@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3351E4DD.41C6@gambier.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <5iu6pm$26m@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5j4d18$sjc$5@easystreet03> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39324 tedm@portsoft.com wrote: > >The bad144 facility is poorly maintained these days, and should > >probably be taken with a grain of salt. It's a ``for experts only'' > >item, since only experts probably still have the ESDI drive where this > >option was really required. > Now, be nice - I still have a few of those drives in service, two of > them are on a FreeBSD 2.2.1 machine! Well, but i'd rather count you into the `experts' category anyway, and i can't quite remember you asking how to use bad144. :) I guess it wasn't too difficult to figure it out from the man page (but you can often notice that people don't know anymore how to RTFM). I've also once had a good ol' noisy Micropolis 330 MB ESDI drive in a machine running 386BSD 0.1.2.4. It created new bad blocks at lightspeed... ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)