Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!hbetel
From: hbetel@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Heather Betel)
Subject: disks and errors
Message-ID: <1991May19.171622.3372@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Sender: hbetel@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Heather Betel)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 19 May 1991 17:16:22 GMT
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	Last fall, I got a 40meg drive for free. It would be real nice
if I could use it for minix. The problem is that a section of it is
ruined. This section just happens to fall in the middle of the INODE
tables. Is there a way to get the hd device to skip over those areas?
	If it helps, I can post the blocks affected. I have no concept
of disk geometries (it's the one thing I couldn't seem to pick up from
the book), but I was told that all the errors reside on track 5.

Richard Betel
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I know the login is Heather, but the name is Richard!