>> 
>> >bad144 or badsect.
>> 
>> There is one problem: Is there any utility to find all bad sectors? bad144
>> comes from the install disks but I have to know what sectors are bad.
>badsect is not as good as bad144.
>bad144 used to have patch that caused it to scan the disk.
>You will normally find that the bad sectors are listed on the
>a label on the side of the disk. You will probably be able to
>find some dos-utilities capable of scanning the disk for bad-sectors.
>Then you will have to write down were they are (possibly need to
>calculate), and then you can give the parameters to bad144.

I must say that the other PD Unix: Linux works better in this situation. It
lists all the bad sectors (I have 72!) and disables them! It does not
disable them permanently. That is a problem if I want to install NetBSD. 

Seppo


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