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From: keith@seismo.CSS.GOV (Keith Bostic)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.2bsd
Subject: Re: Question on rm driver with bad sector forwarding.
Message-ID: <1382@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 14:56:01 EST
Article-I.D.: seismo.1382
Posted: Thu Feb 13 14:56:01 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Feb-86 02:17:45 EST
References: <513@botter.UUCP>
Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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Summary: rm badsectoring

In article <513@botter.UUCP>, sater@botter.UUCP (Hans van Staveren) writes:
> I am in the process of installing BSD 2.9 on some 11's and in the
> distribution I have, I found a file called rm.badsect.c
> containing a frightening comment about not being tested.
> 
> It is SCCS id 2.1 dated 8/23/83.
> 
> Does anybody know if it works, and if it doesn't is there
> someone out there who has a copy that *does* work?

While mostly correct, there are some problems with the bad sectoring in the
device drivers originally distributed for 2.9BSD If you wish to use these
drivers, I suggest that you not use the bad sectoring.

An RM driver with correct bad sectoring can be obtained from either The Center
for Seismic Studies or Harvard University.  To give credit where it's due, the
bad sectoring fixes were done by Stephen Uitti at Purdue University.

Keith Bostic
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