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From: z@rocksvax.UUCP (Jim Ziobro)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: disk error recovery utilities?
Message-ID: <1314@rocksvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 27-Jul-85 18:03:40 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 27 18:03:40 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 29-Jul-85 07:03:43 EDT
Organization: Xerox: Henrietta, NY
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Does anyone have any utilities for properly adding a bad block to a DEC
standard 144 bad block table.  Currently when a new bad block is found
it can not be simply added because the order of the entries in the table
determines the location of the replacement sectors and the bad-block table
must be sorted.

One solution would be to have the disk driver check the whole table when
looking for bad blocks.  The other would be a utility which reorders the
table correctly.

Comments?  I will summarize to the net in a couple of weeks.

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James M. Ziobro
Ziobro.Henr@Xerox.COM
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