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From: zimmer@Shasta.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: hard disk problem
Message-ID: <1569@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Tue, 5-May-87 14:07:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: Shasta.1569
Posted: Tue May  5 14:07:55 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 7-May-87 03:08:42 EDT
Organization: Stanford University
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Keywords: Bad sectors

I am having problems using the hard disk of an IBM XT (genuine) with Minix.
After creating a Minix partition following the instruction included
with the disks, I try to copy the /usr file system to the hard disk.
This results in one of two things happening:
1. I get a Winchester read error, and Minix remains running, or
2. Minix goes into a hard crash, constantly printing a message to
   the screen.  This message is sometimes about an unexpected interrupt.

Since Minix does copy some of the files over correctly, and can read 
them back, I suspect that the problem might be bad sectors on the hard disk.
(DOS does report bad sectors on the disk when I format it.)  Does Minix
have a facility to map bad sectors and to mark them unusable?  


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