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From: marc@dumbcat.sf.ca.us (Marco S Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Mapping abs sector numbers to files
Message-ID: <1063@dumbcat.sf.ca.us>
Date: 22 Jun 91 05:31:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: dumbcat.1063
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In article <1991Jun20.172754.13086@newshost.anu.edu.au> cmf851@anu.oz.au (Albert Langer) writes:
 > Why do you agree that auto bad sector mapping is undesirable?

The problem is that many have never seen automatic re-mapping (no matter what
the book says :-).  If remaping only occurs after a recoverable error with the
new sector written with the old data (as the manuals imply) this would be a
good thing.

However.  Given my hardware/software I'm seeing a bogus hard error that, if it
occurs at just the wrong time, causes a panic.  Note: The data is just fine.

A previous poster mentioned that most SCSI drives could be mode selected to do
automatic bad sector mapping.  Excuse my ignorance: How do I do this?

// marc
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