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Richard Giles, rgiles@fisonssurf.co.uk writes:
>I was interested to read this. We have identical problems with our server. 
>When it crashs, which is does rather more than we would like, it ends up 
>doing a check disk at boot up. We have 2 IDE 1/2 gig. drives and 1 1 gig. 
>SCSI drive. They all report allocation errors (except C:), which will never 
>go away until you delete the files in question. Level 3 check disks will 
>clear some of them but never all. I think that many of our Lan Server crashes 
>are due to file system problems. We have Lan Server 3 Entry at refresh level 
>7045 which is meant to be the latest. The server currently runs OS/2 2.11. We 
>are going to try and put the Warp full pack onto it.
>
>Has anybody told IBM about this?

our OS/2 system was crashing fairly regularly and complained about bas
sectors in the VM file. Took the Fujitsu drive to a mac where I've got
low-level SCSI tools and enabled SCSI bad-sector remapping. A short read
test soon caused 26 bad sectors to be remapped and OS/2 works fine. The
strange thing is I've been told OS/2 knows how to remap bad sectors. All I
can say it must've been having problems. It does surprise me that all SCSI
drives I've seen have bad-sector remapping disabled....

cheers,
Danny Thomas  (D.Thomas@vthrc.uq.edu.au)