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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: more tales of RA81s--handling of bad sectors
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 02:37:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 02:37:24 1984
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Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
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A few comments:

- There are some versions of uda drivers that mistakenly print "hard
  error" for every error (but---I *think*---really "know" the difference)
  (but if you're getting "sorry, pid foo killed due to swap error" then
  that isn't it).

- We *seem* to have a copy of the ULTRIX RA81 driver (can't be positive),
  and our copy doesn't do bad block replacement.

- Someone has finally done a "complete" driver that *does* do bad block
  replacement; it's in beta test now, and it seems that it will be given
  away.  (If you want to ask plead for a beta test copy, I'll mail you
  the address.)
-- 
(This mind accidently left blank.)

In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (301) 454-7690
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