Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!atha!aunro!ersys!davem From: davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave McCrady) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: disks and errors Message-ID: Date: 19 May 91 19:15:33 GMT References: <1991May19.171622.3372@watserv1.waterloo.edu> Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems, Edmonton, AB, Canada Lines: 18 hbetel@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Heather Betel) writes: > > 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. Try starting your first partition past cylinder 5...say in cyl. 10, just to be safe. As long as cylinder 0 is all right, it should work. It will cost you a bit of capacity, but not much. Dave McCrady | ersys!davem@nro.cs.athabascau.ca +1 403-454-4054 (voice) | Disclaimer? Who needs a disclaimer? +1 403-454-6093 (public USENET) | I >own< the joint.