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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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