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Article #8marking bad blocks in ISC SVR3.2...URGENT HELP NEEDED
From: Marc G Fournier
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 23:39
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 23:39
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Hi Folks... Just installed two ESDI hard drives onto my system, they are used and there are prone to bad blocks...I expected it, so that isn't the worry. The problem is marking these bad blocks so that the OS doesn't try and repeatedly use them. Looking through the manuals (after looking at the sysadmin script), I *thought* that I could use mkpart -A <sector> to mark it, but I get an error back on that... Warning: No root partition, no boot written The syntax I am using is 'mkpart -A <sector> disk1' Is there something that I am missing with this? I take it that the 'no boot written' refers to /etc/boot? Should my syntax be something like 'mkpart -A <sector> -B/etc/boot disk1' This is on a second harddrive, so why would it be looking for a root partition? Any help is greatly appreciated... Marc
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!torn!newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!nexus.yorku.ca!marcf From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) Subject: marking bad blocks in ISC SVR3.2...URGENT HELP NEEDED Message-ID: <1992Oct11.233944.7690@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System) Organization: York University, CS Dept. Toronto Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 23:39:44 GMT Lines: 28