Re: (Fwd) Re: Underflow errors.

Skunk Schouten (skunky@skunky.atlcom.net)
Sun, 3 Mar 1996 16:07:19 -0500 (EST)

I ended up finding out where all the bad blocks where, and then just
didn't partition that part of the drive (about 30 megs of it in this
case). Wasn't pretty, but I needed the drive back in service ASAP.

Skunky

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On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Ulrich Windl wrote:

> Who knows the answer?
>
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> To: Skunk Schouten <skunky@skunky.atlcom.net>
> Cc: aic7xxx@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Underflow errors.
> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 14:52:10 -0800
> From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
>
> [...]
> The only way to force the drive to map out the bad sector is to write
> data to it without reading it first. Under FreeBSD, you can use
> scsi(8) to do a write to the bad sectors reported on your console.
> Under Linux? Who knows?
>
> [...]
> --
> Justin T. Gibbs
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