From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 27 20:57:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA04176 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 20:57:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy3.ba.best.com (root@proxy3.ba.best.com [206.184.139.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA04171 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 20:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shellx.best.com (shellx.best.com [206.86.0.11]) by proxy3.ba.best.com (8.8.7/8.8.BEST) with ESMTP id UAA00180; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 20:56:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (mdean@localhost) by shellx.best.com (8.8.6/8.8.3) with SMTP id UAA10357; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 20:56:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 20:56:25 -0700 (PDT) From: mdean To: "John T. Farmer" cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, jfarmer@goldsword.com Subject: Re: bad144 In-Reply-To: <199709280337.XAA18951@sabre.goldsword.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am not really worried what bad144 thinks, I worried that if it returns errors so will freebsd in general since it does run under freebsd and uses freebsd system calls I assume. On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, John T. Farmer wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Sep 1997 17:42:40 -0700 (PDT) mdean said: > >I've looked through the freebsd mail archive about this but can't find any > >reported bugs. Should bad144 fail on 4.0 gig ide drives or what? It is > >failing about at the middle of mine but the drive is detected fine on > >startup and I ran a test with the utilities that came with it (western > >digital) and it can't find any bad sectors---- should I ignore bad144 or is > >this a sign that it may be broken once I install --- my bios fully supports > >drives of this size (it is a fairly new ppro) > > > > Why use bad144 at all? It's a relic left over from the VAX/PDP-11 days... > Search the archives, this has come up several times. It the drive checks > good with the vendors utilities (for IDE and SCSI) then it's good. > > bad144 had it's day when drives _didn't_ do automatic bad block > replacement. > > John (Yes, I'm old enought to have had to deal with such beasts. > My first Unix box was a PDP-11/34 with Version 6.... And > _big_ RK-05 drives, all of 2.5mb each...) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > John T. Farmer Proprietor, GoldSword Systems > jfarmer@goldsword.com Public Internet Access in East Tennessee > dial-in (423)470-9953 for info, e-mail to info@goldsword.com > Network Design, Internet Services & Servers, Consulting >