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Date:      Fri, 20 Dec 1996 00:44:58 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD SCSI list)
Cc:        dkelly@HiWAAY.net
Subject:   Re: A rotten CP30540
Message-ID:  <199612192344.AAA01309@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199612180209.UAA06412@nexgen.HiWAAY.net> from "dkelly@HiWAAY.net" at "Dec 17, 96 08:09:41 pm"

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As dkelly@HiWAAY.net wrote:

> A poor friend of mine was given a couple of rotten Conner CP30540 hard 
> drives. I'm trying to help him make them into something usable. The problem 
> is thousands of bad blocks. More bad blocks than the drive has 
> pre-allocated spares. Have found hints this involves mode page 4. Any 
> advice?

Hmpf.  I wouldn't use it either...

You could give /sbin/scsiformat a try if you prefer.  It's a plain
FORMAT MEDIUM command which usually involves entering all new defects
into the drive's defect list.

-- 
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. ;-)



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