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- From: terry@uivlsisd.csl.uiuc.edu (Terry Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Bad144 sector mapping tips
- Date: 24 Jul 1992 21:41:09 GMT
- Organization: Coordinated Science Lab., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- Thanks Bill and Lynne for making 386BSD possible! For anyone who is
- trying to get bad144 bad sector mapping to work for MFM/RLL/ESDI drives, here's
- some tips and anomalies (?) I've discovered:
-
- 1. The install program might not put the 'sf' flag (enable bad144 handling) in
- the disklabel. The output of 'disklabel -r wd0' should have a line that
- says "flags: badsect". If 'badsect' is not there, use 'disklabel -e wd0'
- to put it there.
-
- 2. According to INSTALL.NOTES, when a bad sector is accessed, an error message
- should indicate the bad sector number. So far, I've only gotten an error
- message (and not in the form given in INSTALL.NOTES) when the bad sector
- is in the swap partition. And the sector number reported is relative to
- the start of the 386BSD partition (bad144 expects sector numbers relative
- to cylinder 0).
-
- 3. Be sure to use 'bad144 wd0 0' to first clear the bad sector list.
-
- 4. To find bad sectors in the 386BSD partition, use
- 'dd if=/dev/wd0c of=/dev/null bs=512'. If error 5 is reported, then a bad
- sector is found. For example, let's assume the offset of wd0c is 200000.
- If 'dd if=/dev/wd0c of=/dev/null bs=512' reports
-
- error 5 ...
- 13500+0 records in
- 13500+0 records out
-
- then sector #213500 (relative to cylinder 0) is bad. However, the last
- part of /dev/wd0c (one cylinder + 126 sectors) is reserved for bad sector
- mapping; don't try to map any bad sectors found in this area!
-
- 5. According to INSTALL.NOTES, 'bad144 -a wd0 213500' (for our example) should
- have done the trick. But on my system, 'bad144 -a -c wd0 213500' is
- needed. Is this a bug?
-
- 6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 until all bad sectors (except those in the last
- cylinder + 126 sectors) are mapped out (I know, yech!). This is not very
- elegant, but it works. I'll try to write a program sometimes to do this
- better. Is someone already working on this?
-
- I hope this helps someone. Of course, standard disclaimers apply!
-
- ----------
- Terry Lee
- terry@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu
-