[386BSD] Using bad144?

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1 total messages Started by Peter William Wieland Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:37

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Author: Peter William Wieland
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:37

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I'm trying to mark off all of the bad blocks on my MFM drive.  The
installation notes claim that BSD will give me some form of error
message whenever it trys to write to a bad block, but I haven't seen any
messages, and I'm almost certain the installation has used the bad areas.

So my question is:

Knowing the bad tracks on my drive (cylinder & head), how do I compute
the block number(s) that are bad.  

For example, if I wanted to mark track 101:4 (cylinder:head) as bad,
what are the block numbers that I want to feed to bad144.

Or is there a simpler way that I missed.  I looked through the FAQ, man
pages for bad144, fsck, badsect, and checked the installation notes.  Is
there a program which will check my drive for bad blocks and report
block numbers back to me?

Any help would be appreciated.
-peter wieland

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under my desk.  In return for these ideas, I have given them persmision
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Peter Wieland               pw1r+@andrew.cmu.edu            dmonger+@cmu.edu

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