Subject: Re: bad144 on IDE disks
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/16/2001 08:17:15
In message <200107151707.f6FH7AM11962@ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
on Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:07:10 -0400,
Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
> >What size of your IDE disks?
>
> 4 GB.
OK, then you can use bad144.
> >Did you actually set "badsect" flag to the disklabel?
>
> Actually ... no, I didn't. But my quick reading of bad144 was that it
> did it for you. Do you have to use disklabel to do it? If so, then how?
To use bad144(8),
1. Keep spair sector in the raw partition.
1 track + 126 sector
2. Add "badsect" flag to the disklabel, using disklabel(8).
3. Initialize bad144 table.
# bad144 wd0 0
4. Add bad sector using bad144(8) with -a option.
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Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>