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From: steve@avalon.dartmouth.edu (Steve Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Bad Block Forwarding?
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Date: 22 Aug 89 18:35:30 GMT
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Does Ultrix 3.1 (RISC) perform automatic bad block forwarding (revectoring)
on SCI disks such as RA90's?  What strategy is used?  Does anything prevent
runaway forwarding in the instance of false bad block errors that are caused
by other electronic failures?
							Steve Campbell
							Dartmouth College