From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 5 11:27:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12265 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 11:27:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (uucp@osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA12246 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 11:27:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA02679 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Thu, 5 Feb 1998 20:26:32 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.7/8.6.12) id TAA01634; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 19:56:08 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199802051856.TAA01634@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: wd0s1e hard errors In-Reply-To: <199802050622.XAA07077@usr08.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Feb 5, 98 06:22:33 am" To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 19:56:08 +0100 (MET) Cc: alk@pobox.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] 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" As Terry Lambert wrote... > > > > 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? Hear hear. Us no-budget types that run ESDI etc systems still use bad144. It's a pain, but needed if you have non-perfect drives. Don't throw it away.. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' --------------- Support your local daemons: run [Free,Net,Open]BSD Unix --