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From: steve@avalon.dartmouth.edu (Steve Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Bad Block Forwarding?
Message-ID: <15220@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 24 Aug 89 15:04:34 GMT
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In article <388@shodha.dec.com> alan@shodha.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.) writes:
>In article <15164@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, steve@avalon.dartmouth.edu (Steve Campbell) writes:
>> Does Ultrix 3.1 (RISC) perform automatic bad block forwarding (revectoring)
>> on SCI disks such as RA90's?  
       ^
Sorry, I fat-fingered that.  I meant to say SDI (Standard Disk Interconnect?).
My understanding is that disks using SDI also use the Mass Storage Control
Protocol and are controlled by the UDA/KDB family of controllers.  As Alan
says, the answer to my question is yes.  Thanks.
							Steve