Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auratek!bkdavis
From: bkdavis@auratek.UUCP ( Aurora Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Question on SunOS bad block handling with SCSI
Keywords: SunOS bad blocks
Message-ID: <632@auratek.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 90 06:58:12 GMT
Organization: Aurora Technologies, Inc.; Cambridge, Mass.
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I read somewhere that the last two cylinders of a SunOS disk are
used for bad block handling.  Is this used at all for disks
with built-in bad block relocation such as SCSI disks?

If you know the answer to that one, maybe you might also know
what all of the entries in /etc/format.dat and the disk label
REALLY mean and what they're REALLY used for.

Thanks muchly (will summarize if there is sufficient interest)
--Bjoren Davis

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