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From: tsp@killer.UUCP (Tom Poindexter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: bad blocks on hard disk
Message-ID: <1467@killer.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 16:41:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: killer.1467
Posted: Thu Sep  3 16:41:32 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 15:24:25 EDT
References: <196@turbo.RAY.COM>
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In article <196@turbo.RAY.COM>, jim@turbo.RAY.COM (Jim Shaw x8232) writes:
> Having just managed to get my hard disk set up and operating 
> with the 1.2 release of xt_wini.c, I now find that I get 
> non-recoverable errors in the area where I have a couple
> of known bad tracks.( Surprise, surprise). Has anyone
> tackled the problem of bad track mapping yet? The tracks
> 
 I encountered a bad block on my AT's hard disk during a compile.  Fortunately,
the compile finished, leaving a .s file.  I renamed the file `block3535.bad'
and chmod'ed 000.  My fingers are still crossed!

Tom Poindexter  ihnp4!killer!tsp