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- From: rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu (Rick Odeen)
- Subject: Re: swap problems - Not Again!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.145455.4071@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Summary: Frustrating isn't it...
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- References: <NEAL.92Aug13080724@neal.ctd.comsat.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:54:55 GMT
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- In article <NEAL.92Aug13080724@neal.ctd.comsat.com> neal@neal.ctd.comsat.com (Neal Becker) writes:
- >I have a recent 386/4Mb with Wd1007V and 150Mb Micropolis EDSI drives.
- >When 0.1 installed, I get "clean of page xxx failed" warnings. A LOT.
- >By the hundreds.
-
- What you are experiencing is hitting a bad sector in your swap space.
- This happened to me and the only way I've been able to get around it
- for now was to move my swap space somewhere that didn't have bad sectors.
- If you've been following the discussion on bad sectors on EDSI drives
- there was method of discovering where you have bad sectors by doing
- a dd if=/dev/wd0c of=/dev/null bs=512 conv=syn,noerror. Grab a copy
- of the unofficial FAQ (I think it's on agate), there is a good set of
- instructions on how to install 386BSD manually, reinstall your system
- with your swap space in a clean section of disk, leaving a gap between
- probably your root partition and your swap partition (this is where the
- bad sector is). I was fortunate in that the bad sector on my drive
- was close enough to the start of swap that I was able to relabel my
- disk shrinking swap a little and leaving a gap where the bad sector was.
-
- Another apprach people are having success with, if your controller
- supports it, is to enable alternate sector mapping and do a new low
- level format of your drive, this should make the drive to appear
- defect free to 386BSD.
-
- This whole bad sector issue seems to be a problem for a lot of people,
- lets try to coordinate the effort and get this working. Keep those
- posts coming with any and all ideas and efforts!
-
- -Rick Odeen
-
- --
- "MINIX costs $169, but the license allows | Rick Odeen
- making two backup copies, so the effective | rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu
- price can be under $60." | rutgers!umn-cs!buddha!rodeen
- - ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) |
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