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From: billd@crash.cts.com (Bill D'Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard drive problems
Message-ID: <2728@crash.cts.com>
Date: 24 Mar 88 22:24:11 GMT
References: <2691@crash.cts.com> <46075@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: billd@crash.CTS.COM (Bill D'Camp)
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In article <46075@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <2691@crash.cts.com> billd@crash.cts.com (Bill D'Camp) writes:
>> Will the Fast File System (FFS) handle bad blocks, not those found
>> during formatting, those that occur as the drive gets used (and abused).
>
>Executive Summary : No.
>
>Long Drawn out explanation :
>Well, Steve Beats will probably answer this as well but here goes anyway.
>The Fast File System, like the Original File System are just that, File 
>Systems. They don't know bad blocks from nothing ok? Now the disk *driver*
>or the disk *mechanisim* should know about bad blocks and remap them 
>appropriately.

Sorry, actually I guess I thought there would be changes in the driver because
of the FFS (although, as I think about it I don't know why I would have thought
that) changes.  I guess what I really want to know is whether anyone else is 
having problems with sharing devices through Janus?  The drive which I have
set up as an Amiga partition formats fine, but gets errors from the disk
validator.  Does that give a better picture of whats happening?
I don't really want to rewrite the Janus driver, nor do I think it is 
necessary.  According to the documentation with the Bridgeboard there is
no need to set up a separate mountlist entry for Janus partitions, whats not
clear is whether or not this is still true when each partition is a separate
physical device.

>--Chuck McManis


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