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From: trinkle@arthur.cs.purdue.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Bad block forwarding added to hpdump() for 4.3BSD
Message-ID: <1092@arthur.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: Mon, 23-Mar-87 17:09:49 EST
Article-I.D.: arthur.1092
Posted: Mon Mar 23 17:09:49 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Mar-87 06:21:37 EST
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
Lines: 10
Keywords: BSE, bad, block, dump

I have added the necessary code to the hpdump() routine to handle BSE errors.
This means that it is possible to use a swap partition with forwarded bad
blocks for crash dumps.  Savecore handles them correctly.  I will post the mods
to /sys/vaxmba/hp.c to comp.sources.unix.

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