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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Mapping abs sector numbers to files
Message-ID: <1991Jun06.123852.29851@virtech.uucp>
Date: 6 Jun 91 12:38:52 GMT
References: <767@dumbcat.sf.ca.us>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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marc@dumbcat.sf.ca.us (Marco S Hyman) writes:

>I haven't found this in TFM yet -- perhaps the net can help.  Given an error
>message that says something like "SCSI absolute sector 1234 on drive 1 is bad"
>how can I map this sector number to a file/directory/(inode!).  I've looked at

Read mkpart(1M), specifically the -A flag.  Note that if you do add a bad
sector, you should place an entry into /etc/partitions marking that sector
as bad ("badsec =" - also documented on mkpart(1M)).

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