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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 08:04:56 -0500
From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl
Subject: Re: On ESDI install.
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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...