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- From: JRW@PSL.WISC.EDU ("Jim Winkle, UW-PSL, 608-877-2261")
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: BADBLK.SYS on SCSI disks
- Message-ID: <22111817091553@psl.wisc.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 23:09:00 GMT
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- Is there any way to do an image backup from one disk to another disk,
- *except* for the BADBLK.SYS file? I want to copy one disk with useful data on
- it to another larger disk that has some errors on it, and use the second
- (destination) disk. $BACKUP/IMAGE copies BADBLK.SYS, whether /INIT or /NOINIT
- is used, and I lose the bad block info on the destination disk. This seems
- braindead, since disks have their own set of bad blocks. The docs claim you
- should:
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- $ ANALYZE /MEDIA /EXERCISE=FULL ! Find bad blocks on destination disk
- $ INITIALIZE ! Load the DBBF into BADBLK.SYS
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- Then, whenever there is a new error, it gets written into BADBLK.SYS. I have
- a VAXstation 4000/60 running 5.5; the source disk is a SCSI WREN VI and the
- destination disk is a SCSI WREN VII. This should be easy... am I asking the
- wrong question? Please reply to me directly, and I will summerize if there is
- interest. Thanks in advance!
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