Date: Fri, 25 Aug 95 11:38:13 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ESDI drive woes Message-ID: <9508251738.AA11968@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <9508250655.AA11449@sonic.nmti.com.nmti.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Aug 25, 95 01:55:35 am
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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. WD1007 format utility on ftp.wdc.com. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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