NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/sys/sun/admin/6242

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From: [e-mail] (Jim Craven)
Subject: Re: format vs. fsck on a SCSI disk
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In article [e-mail], [e-mail] (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>
>Apparently not all SCSI drives are created equal when it comes to
>being able to sapre/reformat bad blocks on the fly.  I'd think that
>the Seagate 1.3 gig drive is new enough that it should have all the
>latest bells and whistles.  My 3rd party refernce book doesn't
>mention any jumper settings, but I know that some ESDI drives I've
>used in the past have strapping options to enable/disable spare
>blocks.  I guess the idea is that if you want the absolute maximum
>storage on the drive you can disable spare blocks and let your
>operating system worry about handling mapping of grown defects.
>
I had a long (unsuccessful) phone session with Sun regarding this
problem; that is, not being able to correct an error on my 1.3G.
They did not mention this idea of yours, but your idea does sound
possible to me.  If it is true, Sun and myself wasted a *lot* of time.
>
>--
>Bill Mayhew      NEOUCOM Computer Services Department
>Rootstown, OH  44272-9995  USA    phone: [phone]
>[e-mail]   (140.220.1.1)

Jim
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