Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 11:36:26 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, terry@cs.weber.edu Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, imb@scgt.oz.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net Subject: Re: Install issues (was: State of the union speech Message-ID: <199508230136.LAA30106@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> it works better than the format utility. Low level reformatting should >> only be necessary if you change the hardware number of sectors/track. >You do. You get rid of the !@#$$! sector sparing. >The whole problem is the sector sparing. If it's not enabled then disabling it is a no-op. Of course, people who already have it disabled probably don't have the bug. It is disabled by default for the WD1007V-SE* so perhaps not having the bug is usual. Bruce
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