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- From: orman@iastate.edu (David L Orman)
- Subject: Re: Linux and RLL drives
- Message-ID: <orman.712245550@pv0225.vincent.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 13:59:10 GMT
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- In <712203618.F00001@remote.halcyon.com> Geoffrey.Anderson@f34.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Anderson) writes:
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- >I seem to be having a bit of trouble getting linux to create a valid FS
- >on an RLL drive. I have a WD RLL controller, and I created a 32 meg
- >partition for it(actually it was a DOS partition, bit I hacked it to be
- >a minix type partition. Anyhow when I run mkfs -c [blah blah] it chokes
- >on sector 3870 while checking for bad clusters. I know that this is
- >bull, since I had SpeedStor verify the partition and it is clean of bad
- >sectors.
-
- >Am I crazy and linux should support RLL formatted drives, or is it a
- >non-supported feature of the OS? Is there hope for a patch/updated
- >release?
- >Or do I have to spend some $$$ I don't have to buy an IDE or SCSI drive.
- > Type at you all again soon.
-
- Works fine on my RLL, Is it really dieing on the bad sectors, or just
- noticing them? It it finishes after the errors then it recorded them,
- and everything is fine. You will then have a file called .badblocks in
- the root directory which is all the bad blocks on your disk linked
- together.
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