Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:03:30 -0600 (CST) From: Tony Kimball <alk@pobox.com> To: tlambert@primenet.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd0s1e hard errors Message-ID: <199802051603.KAA20767@compound.east.sun.com> References: <199802041752.LAA17892@compound.east.sun.com> <199802050622.XAA07077@usr08.primenet.com>
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Quoth Terry Lambert on Thu, 5 February: : > : > 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? No, but rather because (or so I hypothesize) these devices reside overwhelmingly in systems which will never be upgraded to 3.x, and because there is benefit to be gained from desupport, as recent traffic regarding biosboot indicates. : 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? This is the persistent claim of the, presumed, cognoscenti whenever anyone less informed makes an inquiry about how to deal with bad sectors.
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