From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 4 22:22:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA11715 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:22:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA11708 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:22:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA02511; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 23:22:38 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd002504; Wed Feb 4 23:22:36 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA07077; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 23:22:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802050622.XAA07077@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: wd0s1e hard errors To: alk@pobox.com Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 06:22:33 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199802041752.LAA17892@compound.east.sun.com> from "Tony Kimball" at Feb 4, 98 11:52:19 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" > > Should bad144 be retired? Why, have you come up with a new "media perfection layer" which sits in Julian's new slice code under devfs to replace it so you can still use WD1007 ESDI controllers, MFM, RLL, and other drives that don't support automatic bad sector forwarding? Personally, I think if bad144 is retired, you might as well retire wd drives that don't have LBA modes like SCSI has. After all, "all modern devices" see drives as a linear array of sectors which never go bad, right? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.