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Subject: Re: wd0s1e hard errors
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please don't retire bad144, i try not to use disks that are dying, however
someon just getting into freebsd might have a drive that has a small
imperfection on it and would like to use that drive...

-Alfred

>: > 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.
>
>