Re: How to map bad blocks on a scsi disk?

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From: Jiro Nakamura
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 03:32

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In article <1992Aug14.022045.3738@kegworks.mn.org> lfahnoe@kegworks.mn.org  
(Larry Fahnoe) writes:
> I've recently run into my first disk errors on my cube's scsi disk and  
am
> looking for ways to map them to a bad block area on the drive and out of
> the file system.  

Larry -
	We've been developing an application that does exactly what you  
want. It's called SCSI Reassign Blocks and it does SCSI level bad block  
reassignment. It only works on drives that have allocated spare blocks  
during the initialization process.
	Unfortunately, we were burned very badly by our beta testers who  
did not return any evaluations on our software so we have decided to not  
continue further beta testing.
	Hopefully the product should be out by the end of the year, if  
that's any consolence...

	Jiro Nakamura
	NeXT R&D / Focal Point Computer, Inc.
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