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- From: israel@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Andreas Israel)
- Subject: Success, but HD problems (Controller WD1007V)
- Message-ID: <israel.712428515@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
- Sender: bin@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de (Owner of all binaries)
- Organization: tu-chemnitz
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:48:35 GMT
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- Hello,
-
- I finally managed to install 386BSD 0.1 on a 486 with HD controller
- WD1007V (ESDI). The install program put very strange things in the
- disklabel, so I used the fixit.fs to write the disklabel and installed
- it manually.
- Although the system boots from the hd and goes multi-user, I have
- strange effects in the filesystem. There are some blocks I can write,
- but I cannot read it.
- Bad blocks! Bad144? I thought of that, but whenever I try to enable
- bad sector forwarding, the system says that my bad sector table is
- corrupt. But it is also impossible to clear the bad sector table with
- 'bad wd0 0'.
- BTW: I tried dd to find the bad blocks, but it will stop on the first
- occurance and refused to read behind this block even with skip=bno.
-
- (I lowlevel-formatted the disk before I started and the program found
- one additional bad sector and added it to the bad sector table of the
- disk - but it used the physical sectors of the hd. - Is it possible that
- I could overwrite this bad sector table with the filesystem, but the
- controller refuses attempts to initialize the bad sector table?)
-
- Maybe my disktab entry is wrong? Should I use the parameter the
- controller simulates? Or should I use the physical parameter of the
- hd?
- Could someone with deeper insight to this controller business give me
- some ideas on how this bad sector forwarding works and what I can try
- next to get rid of these effects?
-
- Any help appreciated!
-
- Andreas
-
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- Name: Andreas Israel Chemnitz University of Technology Email:
- Nick: Easy Dept. of Computer Science ai@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de
- Phone: +49 371 668 423 Germany, O-9010 Chemnitz, PSF 964
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