From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 27 21:31:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA05602 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 21:31:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sabre.goldsword.com (sabre.goldsword.com [199.170.202.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA05595 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 21:30:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jfarmer@localhost) by sabre.goldsword.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) id XAA18951; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 23:37:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 23:37:08 -0400 (EDT) From: "John T. Farmer" Message-Id: <199709280337.XAA18951@sabre.goldsword.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, mdean@best.com Subject: Re: bad144 Cc: jfarmer@goldsword.com Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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