Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 08:04:56 -0500 From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On ESDI install. Message-ID: <199508241304.IAA19423@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199508231835.UAA01949@yedi.iaf.nl>
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In article <199508231835.UAA01949@yedi.iaf.nl>, Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> wrote: >Question: who has ever tried an ESDI controller != WD1007 ? I was using an Ultrastor under 386BSD, until my Compaq died. (anyone wanna buy 16M of Compaq Deskpro memory? I mean it this time.) Since bad144 was broken for drives over 1024 cylinders, I had to reformat a couple of times to get it down to 1 bad sector per track and use sector sparing. That left a couple of bad sectors on wd1, took care of them by creating a bunch of files until I had a file with the bad block in it. Xenix did all their bad blocks that way. Created a .badblock file in the partition root and filled it with bad blocks. Was a lot more convenient than bad144...
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