Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 01:55:35 -0500 (CDT) From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: ESDI drive woes Message-ID: <9508250655.AA11449@sonic.nmti.com.nmti.com>
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OK, I'm trying for the umpteenth time to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 on an ESDI drive. Drive is formatted with Disk Manager. Apparently when Disk Manager sees a bad sector, it "spares" the whole track. Unfortunately, FreeBSD doesn't know where to find the spare track, or the spare track is unformatted. Disk Manager won't format outside the official data space on the drive. When bad144 sees a spare track, it eats all 35 of the sectors on it and it doesn't take many defects to beat the maximum of 126 defects per partition at that rate. The controller is an HP special. It looks like a WD1007 but doesn't appear to have a BIOS accessible through DEBUG, so I can't use the WD sector sparing even if I wanted to. Help?
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