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Hello,

I have a NeXT '040 cube with a 200M drive in it.  Up until yesterday, it
was working fine.

I have successfully net booted it off of a NeXTStation, but I can't get
it to newfs properly.  When writing the super-block backups, it get a
write error at a random place on the disk, with the error:

16, ..., 45736,write error: 48416
wtfs: Error 0

I think I need a low level formatting utility that can mark bad blocks after
verifying the disk.  Is there a built-in NeXT utility to do this?  I looked
at sdform and disk, but neither seems to handle anything but pristine disks.

Is there a utility on the net to do this?  A long time ago, I got a util
called reassignblock, and in the readme it mentions formatdisk, but I can't
find it with archie, or on a few common NeXT ftp sites.

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks,

Vaughan
                     VaughAn Turner     Internet: vturner@nmsu.edu
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                     VaughAn Turner     Internet: vturner@nmsu.edu
     Networking/Workstation Support     Box 30001, Dept. 3AT
    Computer Center, Networking/WSC     Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
        New Mexico State University     88003-0001