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From: d89peter@odalix.ida.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: mbad/xpioctl.h : XPIOCZAPHEADER
Summary: Need information about the XPIOCZAPHEADER ioctl() call
Keywords: xp mbad ioctl dynix balance 2.1.1 badspots
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.055627.20740@ida.liu.se>
Date: 24 Mar 91 05:56:27 GMT
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Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
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I've just ported the 4.3BSD-reno 'bad144' program to our
Balance and when looking thru the include files, I noticed
the mbad/xpioctl.h file that contains just one entry, for the
XPIOCZAPHEADER call. That looked very interresting, and I thought
that perhaps I could use it to tell the device driver/controller new
bad sectors so that I wouldn't have to reboot every time I add a new
one. However, since there is no documentation about that call, I'm
a little unsure just exactly what it does... Any suggestions?




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