Question on rm driver with bad sector forwarding.

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2 total messages Started by Hans van Staveren Tue, 11 Feb 1986 14:51

#292

Author: Hans van Staveren
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1986 14:51

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I am in the process of installing BSD 2.9 on some 11's and in the
distribution I have, I found a file called rm.badsect.c
containing a frightening comment about not being tested.

It is SCCS id 2.1 dated 8/23/83.

Does anybody know if it works, and if it doesn't is there
someone out there who has a copy that *does* work?

As they say, thanks in advance,
-- 
Hans van Staveren,			| mcvax!vu44!sater
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam		| sater@vu44.UUCP

Re: Question on rm driver with bad sector forwarding.

#293

Author: Keith Bostic
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1986 19:56

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In article <513@botter.UUCP>, sater@botter.UUCP (Hans van Staveren) writes:
> I am in the process of installing BSD 2.9 on some 11's and in the
> distribution I have, I found a file called rm.badsect.c
> containing a frightening comment about not being tested.
> 
> It is SCCS id 2.1 dated 8/23/83.
> 
> Does anybody know if it works, and if it doesn't is there
> someone out there who has a copy that *does* work?

While mostly correct, there are some problems with the bad sectoring in the
device drivers originally distributed for 2.9BSD If you wish to use these
drivers, I suggest that you not use the bad sectoring.

An RM driver with correct bad sectoring can be obtained from either The Center
for Seismic Studies or Harvard University.  To give credit where it's due, the
bad sectoring fixes were done by Stephen Uitti at Purdue University.

Keith Bostic
	keith@seismo.CSS.GOV
	seismo!keith
	+1 703 276 7900

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