From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!rocheste!ritcv!wrc
Newsgroups: net.wanted
Title: bad sector flagging
Article-I.D.: ritcv.284
Posted: Wed Apr 13 11:36:35 1983
Received: Sun Apr 17 06:43:30 1983


Has anyone found a way of marking bad sectors on an rp07 without
running the standard DEC formatter?  We've got an 11/780, running
4.1bsd.  One of the sectors which is smack-dab in the middle of
the ilist in our /usr filesystem recently went out.  We would
prefer not to have to reformat the disk to mark the newly-bad
sector if at all possible; this drive is the one containing our
root filesystem, and we don't want to have to rely on the
more-or-less nonexistent standalone TU78 driver in order to bring
the system back after reformatting the disk.  Any comments or
suggestions would be appreciated.

	- Warren Carithers, Rochester Institute of Technology
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